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Re:CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Ep... by aceoflolo on Saturday January 06, 2018 @06:48AM (#16084873)
What console of the current generation comes with an Intel CPU?

And in any case the Meltdown patch is not too bad for games.

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Re:CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Ep... by bhouston on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:28AM (#16084986)
PS4 and XBox One are running AMD CPUs (albiet x86-64 arch) this generation and the Switch is NVIDIA (ARM Aarch64).
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Re:CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Ep... by ZenoArrow on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:02AM (#16084911)
> "What console of the current generation comes with an Intel CPU?"

The Switch appears to be based on ARM cores that are vulnerable.

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Re:CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Ep... by flusteredpie on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:08AM (#16084929)
Will this aid homebrew communities in their efforts to run unsigned code on the PS4, xbone, Switch et al?
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Re:CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Ep... by kazagistar on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:23PM (#16086275)
I suspect not, but I could see it used to discover future vulnerabilities. Read access to all of memory is pretty powerful.
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