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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by betterunix2 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#16065605)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2

It makes reference to the nature of the bug and explains why AMD's chips are not affected (from an AMD engineer).

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by mywittyname on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:02PM (#16065690)
I was making reference to this [1].

The original fix had a comment that literally said, "/* Assume for now that ALL x86 CPUs are insecure */" They've since added a check to exclude AMD processors.

[1] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip...

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by betterunix2 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:06PM (#16065716)
Same patch I think.
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