On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:11:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:18:30PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > > What about Spectre /Meltdown? P3/P4/Pentium M systems don´t have that? Core > > 2 > > systems to my knowledge can. > > There's no reason to believe netburst systems are not affected by any of the > cpu issues identified in the past few years, but they are obsolete and > unsupported so nobody is making official statements about them. These > systems also lack a number of security features present in modern CPUs; > picking an ancient chip for "security reasons" is likely misguided. Also, in > the context of this thread, note that the most recent Core 2 processor was > released in 2010. >
AFAIK there is just no official statement of Intel about Pentium III, IV and M CPUs. That may also be because they want(ed) people to buy newer machines. Nonetheless I would be in wonder if nobody at all had ever tested these CPUs for Spectre and Meltdown. The issue itself wasn´t discovered by Intel either. Elmar
