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   Mamako (mamako@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 20:10:17 JST Mamako

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   @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq @alina @grimmauld Cellphones don’t have any protection at all.
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     @Mamako@poa.st @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @alina@girldick.gay @grimmauld@mastodon.grimmauld.de Meltdown doesn't work on ARM lmao what you mean

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     @grimmauld@mastodon.grimmauld.de @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @Mamako@poa.st @alina@girldick.gay Nope, Windows Phones also use ARM architecture CPUs

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     @SuperDicq @Suiseiseki @Mamako @alina this expects "Cellphones" to be arm - windows phones were not.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 20:18:42 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @Mamako @alina @grimmauld Yes, Meltdown is specific to Intel CPUs.
     
     Aarch64 is vulnerable to speculative execution attacks as it has speculative execution.
     
     Many Intel Atom CPUs are not affected by such attacks as they don't have speculative execution - and 1 or 2 of such CPUs are supported in a freed version of coreboot.
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     @grimmauld@mastodon.grimmauld.de @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @Mamako@poa.st @alina@girldick.gay Afaik Windows Phone was exclusive to ARM.
     
     Very few x86 phones exist (such as the Lenovo K800), but they ran Android instead.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 22:46:34 JST 翠星石

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     @freetar @Mamako @SuperDicq @alina @grimmauld An old actually free version of Libreboot will do for the D945GCLF or D945GCLF2, but the question is whether you can get that to boot anything (the proprietary BIOS is reportedly didn't boot from someone's HDD, but a free BIOS did).
     
     The issue seems to be that someone decided to rewrite the raminit without bothering to see if it actually worked.
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     GNU Tar (freetar@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 22:46:35 JST GNU Tar

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     Indeed. If you want to completely avoid a speculative execution attack, just use a D510MO or D410PT with GNU Boot. You could also use a D945GCLF or D945GCLF2, if it weren't for the fact that they have apparently been non-functional in Coreboot for about five years.