[chbot] Intel: Meltdown and Spectre patches flawed

[Darran]

 From my understanding the main group of CPUs which the patch bricked 
were very old AMD's like the Athlon generation.

A lot of software/OS house originally put out patches too but they 
pulled them and told users to push back on the hardware manufacturers. 
e.g RedHat and VMWare.

We have been rolling out the micro-code patches to our HP Gen 8 and 9 
blades. We have had two issues with blades being bricked post patch but 
these are under warranty so HP replace the motherboard so it is an 
inconvenience more than a cost.



On 10/03/18 08:58, Mark Atherton wrote:
> This is an interesting, if not scary piece of news from 
> https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333039
>
> "In January, Intel surprised us all with the news that it's Meltdown 
> and Spectre CPU firmware patches were no good. The instructions were 
> to immediately cease distributing and uploading the firmware patches. 
> Unfortunately, people who had downloaded the patch could not uninstall 
> it, creating endless reboots and unpredictable system behavior. Now 
> even AMD has joined the debacle as it faces class action lawsuits over 
> how it responded to the flaws"
>
> Still not sure exactly which CPUs are affected, but one possible 
> solution is to use older CPUs ...
>
> Strange world we are living in huh ?
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
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