Re: STIBP by default.. Revert?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 18:44:02 EST


On 11/20/2018 11:27 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

In the documentation, AMD officially recommends against this by default,
and I can speak for Intel that our position is that as well: this really
must not be on by default.

Thanks for pointing to the AMD doc, it's indeed clearly stated there.

Is there any chance this could perhaps be added to Intel documentation as
well, so that we avoid cases like this in the future?

absolutely that's now already in progress;
the doc publishing process is a bit on the long side unfortunately so it won't
be today ;)