-------- In message <alpine.bsf.2.00.1503092309570.38...@woozle.rinet.ru>, Dmitry Morozo vsky writes: >On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >any thoughts we're vulnerable to this? >> >> It's a hardware problem, *everybody* are vulnerable. > >Well, it seems I used somewhat incorrect wordings. > >Any chance we could provide workaround like for Pentium f00f bug?
As far as I know the only workaround is increasing the DRAM refresh rate sufficiently that the hardware behaves as it should. It seems that such BIOS updates are being rolled out, but undoubtedly a lot of old machines will get none and it's not even entirely obvious that increasing the DRAM refresh rate is enough. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
