24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
9:48 p.m.
On 3/23/2018 2:00 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:24:24PM +1000, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
The original CPU design was purchased from the US, but a variety of chip makers have been improving on the design in a variety of ways, so it is not US cloned, but is US descended - rather distantly descended by now.
according to the interwebz, your system is ARM based and in addition ARM is vulnerable to spectre. how many vulnerabilities like spectre affect the "US design"?
The Orange Pi Cpu does not do speculative execution, therefore is not vulnerable to spectre.