Re: [Arm-netbook] Noticed you said RK3288 immune to spectre,

On 02/04/2019 11:21 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, zap calmstorm@posteo.de wrote:

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You think the A20 has to be scrapped in favor of the RK3288?

Surprised that RK3288 is immune to spectre given that its based on the Arm cortex processor A17 which I thought was vulnerable to meltdown/spectre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A17

Arse. It's OoO. I thought it was an in-order.

That crosses it off the list, then.

Thanks for helping to ensure a big screwup is avoided.

No problem, I was just trying to warn you.  Glad to see, I replied, I thought for a moment you knew something I didn't. ;)