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On 10/01/18 20:12, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:06:46 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:47:25 GMT Wolfgang Mueller wrote: |
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>>>> It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right? |
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>>> |
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>>> It seems that patches are being pushed out as they are being received, |
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>>> so back when that one was released, no other updates were available. |
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>>> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/643430#c10 |
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>>> We should get the full range of updates in the next few days. |
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>> Right. Patience is a virtue, they say. |
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> So what are we to do with our old PCs, which will no longer receive Intel's |
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> microcode blessing? Are we to throw them away in a landfill and of course |
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> take our custom elsewhere, or will the kernel patches suffice for both bugs |
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> and all variants? |
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The spectre bug needs a microcode update. It can't be closed by software. |
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Intel has a page somewhere for people asking "why do I do with my old |
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PC", and they tell you to kindly fuck off (not in those words exactly, |
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but it's what they mean) and direct you to their latest CPUs and places |
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where you can buy them. And of course you'll also need to buy new |
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mainboards and new RAM. |
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Millions and millions of computers are out there running Sandy Bridge |
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and Ivy Bridge CPUs, since they're almost as fast as the latest CPUs. |
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People use them as their main machines, or as secondary machines. |
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They're all over the place. And they're all going to be vulnerable from |
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here on out. |
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Strangely, nobody in the press called Intel out on it. Everybody acts as |
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if this perfectly acceptable. |
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