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Given below is the raw mail from Linus Torvalds commenting on Intel's recent patches to fix the Spectre and Meltdown. Have fun reading this... From: Li nus Torvalds <> Date:  Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:35:59 -0800 Subject:  Re: [RFC 09/10] x86/enter: Create macros to restrict/unrestrict Indirect Branch Speculation On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:28 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2018-01-21 at 11:34 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> All of this is pure garbage. >> >> Is Intel really planning on making this shit architectural? Has >> anybody talked to them and told them they are f*cking insane? >> >> Please, any Intel engineers here - talk to your managers. > > If the alternative was a two-decade product recall and giving everyone > free CPUs, I'm not sure it was entirely insane. You seem to have bought into the cool-aid. Please add a healthy dose of critical thinking. Because this isn...