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Wow. Your right, for spectre patches were needed on system z.

https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=000019105

Meltdown didn't affect z nor amd.



Series Z and POWER up to and including POWER9 are susceptible to meltdown as well.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meltdown-spectre-ibm-preps-fir...


Ok. debian is even more explicit than suse above regarding "no meltdown on Z":

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/SpectreMeltdown#Syste...



Which aren't POWER cores. POWER is an IBM trademark; the 7400 is a Motorola PowerPC core.


A fair point, though early POWER cores probably aren't for the same reasons these aren't (can't speculate through indirect branches using SPRs), and IBM was involved in the development of both.




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