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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution
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On 2018-03-19, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:

> There's one small wrinkle: there are some recent lower-end processors
> (at least some recent Celerons) which it seems are not susceptible to
> Meltdown, and after a microcode update will set a bit to indicate
> this.

Specifically, Goldmont cores (Apollo Lake, Denverton).

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de