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It affects CPUs that do speculative execution. Pretty sure some powers do.
by pizlonator 9y ago
It affects CPUs that do speculative execution. Pretty sure some powers do.
- binarycrusader 9y agoI wonder to what degree some systems are affected. I believe Solaris already uses separate address spaces on SPARC for user and kernel. I haven’t looked over the SPARC architecture manual to see if they allow speculative execution beyond privilege boundaries.
- olliej 9y agoThat only prevent reading over higher privilege (the meltdown vulnerability) it doesn't protect the arbitrary user land reads from spectre.