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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by qubex on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:49PM (#16065554)
I don't know if it's possible to see who contributed that patch (yet), but I’m cynical enough to half-expect that the “assume all x86 processors are insecure” patch might come from an Intel engineer...
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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by mywittyname on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:58PM (#16065652)
I would not be surprised at all, considering the patch I saw for the AMD processors was literally a one-line if statement around the set cpu insecure flag that added a check for AMD processors.

Google is failing me or I'd post a link.

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by omeid2 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:42PM (#16066602)
the patch was by Thomas Gleixner[0], who is not an Intel Engineer.

AMD has since pushed a patch to "not enable PTI on AMD processors" [1]

[0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10138833/

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10142563/

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