On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:27:24AM +0100, marc wrote:
> 
> Spectre has no patch in the conventional sense. But there 
> are two types of things one can do:
> 
> * Move to a processor which doesn't speculate :) with so many 
> side effects. Processors found on the raspberry PI, for example, 
> are ok to use.

I was planning on a new laptop so I could use a reasonablly current API.
But with the execute-ahead fiasco, I am reluctant to put serious money
down on a vulnerable processor.  So I'm getting a raspberry pi instead 
and connecting it to my TV.  Not really a laptop, no.

And I'm replacing my file server with one based on a MIPS processor.

-- hendrik
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