On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:57:41 +0100
> > dealing with Intel ME or AMD Ryzens bloat. Should I wait for > > everything to be ported to RISC and hope it is as stable and secure > > or wait for an ARM CISC chip, which probably won't happen? > > I'll bite: Patches for a RISC-V port would probably be welcome. Of course but I assume that would be similar to an ARM port and quite different from amd64. I any case, way more than I could achieve in a useful time frame. Basically I have to decide if older, hotter, larger and more expensive AMD hardware is a better choice and won't be obsoleted or if mitigations will suffice. Hoping Positive Technologies BlackHat presentations over the next few days will shed more light. It is a £1400 entrance fee so will have to wait for a youtube or future info releases. Dangerous Bugs aren't new such as with core2duo but this is looking insane. The Apollo Lake chips are really impressive, just a shame they are intrinsically covered in #*&%. Hopefully public pressure might cause Intel to release firmware with a proper safe mode switch.
