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Subject: Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>,
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On 1/12/2018 1:07 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
> All:
> 
> The fix in this patch appears to be unconditional.

The original email said

"The code will be selectable via a tunable which ..." Perhaps wait for
the final product.

	---Mike



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