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Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

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Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

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Just checked for Updates, but there don't seem to be any?

“If you are running an impacted device, this update can be applied by downloading it from the Microsoft Update Catalog website”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4078130/update-to-d...

Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

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post #2

Just checked for Updates, but there don't seem to be any?

“If you are running an impacted device, this update can be applied by downloading it from the Microsoft Update Catalog website” https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4078130/update-to-d...

Thanks

Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

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"Here's a patch" - "Here's a patch to disable that other patch" - ...

What's next? Repeat? Sounds like this could turn into a maintainance nightmare quickly. Also because I've introduced things like that myself in the past, and that was for normal applications and not a kernel or OS. Somewhere, someday, there's usually this one exception for which none of your rules hold true and the thing blows up in your face. Anyway, I'd love to see the actual code for this. Not a chance probably?

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