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You’re conflating Spectre with Meltdown. Linus’ response is specific to Meltdown, which applies only to Intel chips. Spectre applies to numerous other architect
by CodeWriter23 9y ago
You’re conflating Spectre with Meltdown. Linus’ response is specific to Meltdown, which applies only to Intel chips. Spectre applies to numerous other architectures.
- cthalupa 9y agoUh, Linus is very specifically talking primarily about Spectre. IBRS, IPBP, and retpoline are all Spectre specific mitigations. The Meltdown mention is a sidenote.