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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Qualcomm's Oryon boasts hardware "side-channel mitigations"
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:12:53 +0000
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Anton Ertl wrote:

> https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21445/SDX_CPU_GPU%20Architecture%20Overview_15.jpg

> Unfortunately, they don't describe what they do, and "mitigation" has
> a weaker sound than "fix" to me, but maybe they mean a proper hardware
> fix.  That would be the best case.  The worst case would be that they
> just have added instructions or a special mode for disabling
> speculation.

Maybe they just followed my advice on deferring state updates until
after retirement.

> - anton