Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus

>We asked repeatedly, but Intel provided no advance notice. We did not even receive replies to our requests for dialogue.

Intel's treatment of *BSD is frankly quite insulting, especially so given that they serve a _huge_ portion of the internet traffic, with Netflix using FreeBSD for content delivery.

More links:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/L1TF

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html

The key quote from Theo:

> We believe Intel cpus do almost no security checks up-front, but defer checks until instruction retire. As a result we believe similar issues will be coming in the future.

Is x86 dead now?

HN mods: This is not a dupe! Also could whomever changed the title, please change it back? This specifically addresses these issues on Intel CPUs in relation to OpenBSD.

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759762