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geezerjay on Jan 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Secur...

That says nothing about the need to fully replace defective hardware to avoid the hardware problem.

rurban on Jan 8, 2018 [–]

That says nothing about the possibility to patch the missing page table isolation with a microcode update. They have enough spare registers for a seperate C3, they could workaround the TLB flush. Since the fdiv bug HW problems are not HW problems anymore.

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