In message <[email protected]>, John Baldwin writes:
>Every FreeBSD/amd64 kernel in existent is vulnerable. In truth, my personal >opinion is that Intel screwed up their implementation of that instruction >whereas AMD got it right, and we are merely working around Intel's CPU bug. :( Given that the instruction set of AMD64 is defined by AMD originally, while Intel was trying very hard to ram Itanic down everybodys throat, that diagnosis is a given: Intel copied AMD, and difference in functionality is a screwup on Intels part, even if they documented their screwup in their manual. TL;DR: Which part of "compatible" doesn't Intel get ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
