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Re: Spectre on non-amd64




> On Jan 19, 2018, at 4:47 PM, <maya%netbsd.org@localhost> <maya%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> I think that the spectre variant 2 situation is a lot worse for:
> - Speculative CPU
> - Weak memory protection
> 
> Then I don't need a JIT for gadgets.
> 
> Architectures that fall into this:
> - default i386 netbsd, because it is missing NX bit (PAE is optional)
> - MIPS for us, because we don't use kseg2 and then it doesn't go through
>  MMU.

which MIPS do speculative execution?

	paul



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