Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

[Mick]

On Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:20:59 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-upd
> ate-guidance.pdf
>
> From
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/
>
> "The new guidance
> <https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-up
> date-guidance.pdf>, issued April 2, adds a “stopped” status to Intel’s
> “production status” category in its array of available Meltdown and Spectre
> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/>
> security updates. "Stopped" indicates there will be no microcode patch to
> kill off Meltdown and Spectre."
>
> " "Stopped" CPUs that won’t therefore get a fix are in the Bloomfield,
> Bloomfield Xeon, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown Xeon C0 and E0, Jasper
> Forest, Penryn/QC, SoFIA 3GR, Wolfdale, Wolfdale Xeon, Yorkfield, and
> Yorkfield Xeon families. The new list includes various Xeons, Core CPUs,
> Pentiums, Celerons, and Atoms – just about everything Intel makes.
>
> Most the CPUs listed above are oldies that went on sale between 2007 and
> 2011"

Thanks for updating the gentoo-user M/L on this topic Adam.

Does the lack of a microcode patch mean the in-kernel and other software fixes 
won't be sufficient to protect PCs running these old CPUs?  I'm asking because 
I have a couple of old laptops I was hoping to get more mileage out of, at 
least until new generation CPUs become available.  Preferably NOT Intel's.

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Regards,
Mick