Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:01:54 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Add document to describe Spectre and its mitigations |
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On Mon 2019-01-14 13:06:24, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > That one really is Intel-specific (not even all x86s are affectd). Same > > > > for Meltdown. > > > > > > At least for Meltdown, your claim is simply not correct. > > > > You are right, there may be few ARM chips affected by meltdown. > > And some of the powerpc64s as well.
Do you mean this?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/8/649
Frankly I'd not call it Meltdown, as it works only on data in the cache, so the defense is completely different. Seems more like a l1tf :-).
Pavel
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