From owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org Mon Mar 26 03:42:47 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746E6F6665B for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:42:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mail.lariat.net (mail.lariat.net [66.62.230.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F230668415 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:42:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from Toshi.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11817; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:07:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <201803260307.VAA11817@mail.lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:07:25 -0600 To: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution In-Reply-To: References: <20180314042924.E880D1128@freefall.freebsd.org> <337d9fd4-2aa4-609a-6a00-e9ce2be599cc@netfence.it> <8deba9d2-17b5-9088-1766-42f9e334df89@demter.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:42:47 -0000 Intel Atom processors are also not susceptible. Only one of them does any out-of-order execution, and that one appears to do it in a way that is not susceptible to Meltdown or Spectre. --Brett Glass At 02:56 PM 3/20/2018, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >On 2018-03-19, Ed Maste 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). > >-- >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"