Hello Misc, Will OpenBSD's patches for Spectre help mitigate the risk for the processor families which are not receiving Intel's mitigation microcode for Spectre/Spectre variant 2?
Backdrop Intel has issued a Microcode Revision Guidance on April 3, 2018 [1]. As per this guidance, some processor families will not be receiving the Spectre/Spectre variant 2 mitigation microcode updates from Intel. The reasons for this kind act of benevolence are best known to Intel. The above is my understanding based on TheRegister's article[2]. As a layman who understands little to nothing about Spectre or Meltdown, I am wondering whether OpenBSD's mitigations would be sufficient. On a side note, older IBM-era ThinkPads seem to be left out by Intel. ThinkPad Classic is/was for volks with lot of money. Lenovo wants to be Apple. I do not have words to express myself. Regards, ab [1] - https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf [2] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|--
