Re: Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"

2018-01-06 Thread Mark Kettenis
> From: Philip Guenther > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:52:20 -0800 > > Unless something unexpected happens, we'll be applying the workaround to > amd64 first and then working out what to do for i386 and arm* (if still > though to be necessary for arm) after that. FWIW, Meltdown is a non-issue for Op

Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"

2018-01-06 Thread Philip Guenther
So, yes, we the OpenBSD developers are not totally asleep and a handful of us are working out how to deal with Intel's fuck-up aka the Meltdown attack. While we have the advantage of less complexity in this area (e.g., no 32bit-on-64bit compat), there's still a pile of details to work through abou