Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by jononor on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:54AM (#16257182)

The microcode patches are binary blobs against a proprietary and secret ISA, how can anyone comment on their quality?

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mjevans on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:54PM (#16261357)

When I read it I believed that Linus was implying that the suggested mitigation was so insane that it seemed like Intel MIGHT be hiding how broken they believed their hardware was with such over-the-top reactions. As well as indirectly asking if they believed the currently accepted mitigation method (retpoline) was considered ineffective.

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