Re:Is it time for open processors?
by int0x80 on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:21PM
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I'm assuming the former, but I could be wrong.
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Re:Is it time for open processors?
by em3rgent0rdr on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:11PM
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The risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional bug, they had plenty of time to take precautions against it by prohibiting speculative updates.