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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Qualcomm's Oryon boasts hardware "side-channel mitigations"
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:46:02 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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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.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>