re: #145 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

It only impacts old AMD chips. If AMD gave them incorrect documentation, they can’t be faulted for not testing the fix on old PCs. You can only have so many machines in your test area. They can be faulted for not rolling it out in waves if they released it to everyone at once.

Fixing the blame fairly is all well and good. My perspective is more about fixing the problem. I happen to run Intel on an Asus, but AMD is in a lot of machines out there. I guess we are the beta test as this moves along. The most recent bios for my main pc at home is last September so far. Per below I think I’ll not be an early adopter of the next flash bios update. Can’t depend on the browser patches either.

Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues

More problems from the massive processor vulnerability

Intel has a patching problem. All last week, users reported computers spontaneously rebooting after installing Intel’s Spectre/Meltdown patch. Now, Intel seems to be giving up on those patches entirely. In a post today, executive vice president Navin Shenoy announced that Intel had located the source of some of the recent reboot problems and is recommending users skip the patches entirely until a better version could be deployed.

There are implications here way beyond consumer grumbles. There will always be lots of older computers hooked up to broadband. Vulnerable VPN’s. There is a cyber war on. Skirmishes so far. It would pay to get better at this.