I am really surprised that my
PineView Atoms are not affected. So all my D525's are fine.
Cedarview Atoms N2800, D2550 are all OK too.
the CPUs that don't do speculative execution and hence are not vulnerable to any of the 3 variants are:
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_CEDARVIEW, X86_FEATURE_ANY },
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_CLOVERVIEW, X86_FEATURE_ANY },
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_LINCROFT, X86_FEATURE_ANY },
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_PENWELL, X86_FEATURE_ANY },
> + { X86_VENDOR_INTEL, 6, INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_PINEVIEW, X86_FEATURE_ANY },
So we will see how the Atom holds up to the new batch of 8 variants..
If I were really worried about these exploits I would be switching my pfSense box to an Atom. I have not. Still APU2.
This does seem to be the textbook case for keeping old hardware around.