On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > > > Again, from my reading on the web this only affects Intel CPUs of the > > last decade. > > This is certainly not correct. Both the Google researchers and Red > Hat's security team have stated that many other CPUs and CPU families > are affected. ARM has already released a statement acknowledging that > several of their CPUs, including ones very widely used in smartphones > etc., are affected. > > The initial reporting that only Intel CPUs were affected was entirely > wrong. > My understanding from reading the associated statement from AMD here: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/meltdown-spectre-exploits-intel-amd-arm-nvidia,36219.html is that AMD chips are not affected. Additionally, there is a kernel patch here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 which specifically bypasses the fix for AMD processors. I'm assuming that Fedora and Redhat both are bypassing this for AMD, correct?
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