On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

>
>
> That is only for one of the issues, Meltdown.  AMD and other vendors
> are impacted by Spectre.
>
> > I'm assuming that Fedora and Redhat both are bypassing this for AMD,
> > correct?
>
> You would need to contact Red Hat, or review the existing advisory, to
> understand what RHEL is mitigating.  Fedora does include the AMD patch
> in f27, but again that is only relevant to one CVE not all of them.
>
>
Thanks for the clarification Josh.  I found AMD's announcement here:

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

Apparently, for Spectre they have developed a mitigation for their CPUs for
variant 1; variant 2
they don't seem to believe that impacts them - and fwiw no one has yet been
able to reproduce it
on amd hardware.

Good news at least amd folks don't need to worry about potential
performance impact from the
meltdown circumvention.
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