Microsoft Pauses Rollout of Spectre and Meltdown Patches To AMD Systems (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday January 9, 2018 @02:44AM from the hold-on dept.

Microsoft is suspending patches to guard against Meltdown and Spectre security threats for computers running AMD chipsets after complaints by AMD customers that the software updates froze their machines. From a report: The company is blaming AMD's failure to comply with "the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown." There's no word on when the patches will be fixed, but Microsoft says that it is working with AMD to address the problem.

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Re:Why Meldown? by 110010001000 · 2018-01-09 03:03 · Score: 2, Informative

I don't get it. Do you think AMD and Intel Windows builds are 100% equivalent? Adorable!
Re:Why Meldown? by TeknoHog · 2018-01-09 03:07 · Score: 4, Informative

In the latest Linux releases, the Meltdown fix has a runtime detection of AMD CPUs, in which case the fix is not activated. I'm sure MS could do something similar if they wanted.

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