xeromist wrote:
I don't have an official response to point people to yet. The best I can do is move this thread to General and rename it. All of the other threads are in different board/chipset areas so it's understandable that those folks want to know when they'll get a fix for *their* product.
Thanks. Wasn't sure where to ask, support really didn't have a clue either (understandable).
Think it's critical vendors are open with their users on what is going on.. It's quite amazing and sad to see this mess unfold. Intel is effectively in full PR damage control mode all over the internet with shills downvoating and outright lies being spread.
For anyone curious, the LKML is a rather interesting place to lurk because the pace at which these changes are still being ironed out is astoundingly volatile.. The latest proposed alternative by Google for example is still software based and requires not only updates to the linux kernel, but compiler itself. The implications of which cannot be known without serious testing cycles and that doesn't factor in anything else like NVIDIA or AMD's own drivers. Which to anyone not familiar with linux, is a bit like MIcrosoft's relationship with them in that they are not maintained in kernel.
Though they are putting out press releases like they cured cancer, Intel isn't even going that far in testing. They are literally throwing changes in for everyone else to test -- including AMD whom caught one of them already. It was an attempt to enable their "workaround" on _EVERY_ CPU even those that AREN'T VULNERABLE.
Like I said, quite amazing
