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So, old Atoms are the only ones still usable intel systems and not vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre/ME.

• namibj 8y ago
  No, the Xeon Phi "accelerators" are usable too, they are basically 486 cores on modern litography (to allow for higher density/clock speeds), with a vector unit attached to them. I don't know how hard it would be to boot linux on one though...
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  • detaro 8y ago
    Only the first generation (X100 model numbers). If I remember right they ship with Linux already, but need a host system to run in of course.
    • namibj 8y ago
      This host system should be not much more than a PCIe root emulator though. This is the level one can get on an e.g. FPGA with custom logic, which implies that any attempts to insert hardware/firmware level attacks into the actual logic you care about is near impossible to do due to the low-level nature of the custom PCIe implementation.
  • bobdole12345 8y ago
    They already run linux as their firmware, you can ssh into the cards.