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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by anifal on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:43AM (#16076809)
Meltdown is mitigated by kernel page table isolation. See patch notes/ the attack paper
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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by geezerjay on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:03AM (#16077272)
That says nothing about the need to fully replace defective hardware to avoid the hardware problem.
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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by rurban on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:18AM (#16094996)
That says nothing about the possibility to patch the missing page table isolation with a microcode update. They have enough spare registers for a seperate C3, they could workaround the TLB flush. Since the fdiv bug HW problems are not HW problems anymore.
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