Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:37:23 -0000 (UTC) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre Message-ID: <slrnp7bpa3.2k8.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <CY1PR01MB12472D916F78A638731ECCE68FFB0@CY1PR01MB1247.prod.exchangelabs.com> <23154.11945.856955.523027@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <5A726B60.7040606@gmail.com> <92120E50-19A7-4A44-90DF-505243D77259@kreme.com> <CA%2BtpaK2o1nbY2W2JVRtogN=P2VM9rag_dodK=GtLWgKwNsYZkg@mail.gmail.com> <F395799E-2C94-47E9-AA1C-5CB075C50076@kreme.com> <044e62f7-69ca-71fe-34a8-5c5cafc06f08@yahoo.com>
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On 2018-02-02, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > Intels patches have 'bricked' processors. Yes, made them totally > unusable as they rushed them out the door. They pulled them immediately > and told people to destroy them. That is wildly exaggerated. I'm running several machines with the microcode updates that Intel later pulled--in fact I'm typing this on one of them--and nothing has been bricked. Intel is extremely coy with details, but it stands to reason that the reliability problems that caused them to retract the microcode will only appear when the operating system actually uses the newly introduced IBRS/IBPB/STIBP features. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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