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> Resolved by software / OS It's not resolved by, it's mitigated by. Furthermore, it wasn't mitigated by AMD (or Intel or ARM), it was mitigated by OS / Softw
by mrmondo 9y ago
> Resolved by software / OS
It's not resolved by, it's mitigated by.
Furthermore, it wasn't mitigated by AMD (or Intel or ARM), it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make workarounds for the hardware's design flaw. It would have been nice to see a nod to such developers for taking the time to help with the problem.
- cryptonector 9y agoThis could be an extinction level event for less popular OSes. Intel, and to a lesser extent AMD, may end up causing enormous damage for which they'll pay nothing much.
- jnwatson 9y agoThat's an excellent point. I used to work porting a commercial embedded real-time OS. I just reviewed the description of the recent mitigations in Linux. It is easily 6 man-months of work if not double, and the level of expertise necessary to implement this right is pretty high. For a small OS shop, that's a pretty high price.
- rlpb 9y ago> ...it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make workarounds for the hardware's design flaw Free Software projects don't necessarily work like this. It's possible for CPU manufacturers to have taken the lead in the work in Linux, for example. Even just helping (which they have clearly done) is more of a nod than just a nod.