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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Spectre+Meltdown
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Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> Do we have some information regarding Spectre+Meltdown for our users?
>
> It could be that we have some security issues in our PowerPC CPUs.

There's a statement from IBM here:

  https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-power-family/


I think you're mostly using pasemi CPUs right? I don't have any
information on them, and obviously it's going to be hard to find anyone
who might know. You might be best finding a proof of concept somewhere
and actually testing it.

cheers