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Intel\'s Spectre & Meltdown fixes = complete & utter garbage

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:24 am    Post subject: Intel's Spectre & Meltdown fixes = complete & utter carbage Reply with quote
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has bashed Intel's Spectre and Meltdown fixes. In a public email exchange, Torvalds called Intel's fixes "complete and utter carbage" and wondered what the fuck was going on.

The patches do things like add the garbage MSR writes to the kernel entry/exit points. That's insane. That says ...read more
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