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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by ihsw2 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:42AM (#16061872)
Not quite -- without his patch, the performance penalty will hit them too. Tom is proposing to be excluded from the proposed solution as it would hit AMD with collateral damage from the `X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE` fix.

I'm sure there are frantic emails claiming that AMD shouldn't be punished for Intel's mistake.

EDIT: actually the fix will go out with 4.14.12 and 4.15rc7, both `X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE` and AMD's addendum to be protected from the collateral damage.

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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by dingo_bat on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:50PM (#16063826)
Maybe it's just me but that name is just too general. Is there no other conceivable way an x86 CPU can ever be "insecure"? Why'd they use something so vague? Is this part of the redaction?
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