Sujet : Qualcomm's Oryon boasts hardware "side-channel mitigations"
De : anton (at) *nospam* mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 14. Jun 2024, 16:46:02
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21445/SDX_CPU_GPU%20Architecture%20Overview_15.jpgUnfortunately, 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
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