Librem 5 Phone Progress Report

Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by j_s on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:19PM (#16178915)

Anyone able to comment on how Spectre is being addressed for this processor and/or even in general by its manufacturer?

https://community.nxp.com/thread/467234 (2018-01-11) basically says NXP will work with customers privately and end users should contact their OEMs.

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-patches-meltdown-and-spectre-va... appears to only cover Intel CPUs.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by bradfa on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:51PM (#16180688)

i.MX6 uses Cortex-A9 cores so is affected by spectre. ARM has some good info on how to deal with it: https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

i.MX8M will use Cortex-A53 cores so is not affected by spectre.

EDIT: Clarified that i.MX8M only has Cortex-A53 cores. Some i.MX8 parts will have Cortex-A72 cores which are affected by spectre. i.MX8M is the version discussed by Purism's post.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by j_s on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:10PM (#16182881)

Thanks much for investing the time to carefully reply!

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