[OpenPower-Firmware] security fixes for meltdown/spectre on P8

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Mar 5 10:57:37 AEDT 2018


Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
> To hijack the thread slightly, is there an overview somewhere of what 
> needs to be done at the OS level to support these fixes? We would 
> obviously like to implement the OS-level changes for FreeBSD, but the 
> only reference for even what the exposure of P8/9 to Spectre is seems to 
> be some moderately cryptic Linux commits.
> -Nathan

(bringing in the powerpc linux kernel maintainer)

Umm... is there?

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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