Matt Dillon hardly needs an introduction, however, I’d just like to point out that he’s one of the few people that I really do trust to have actual knowledge on these issues, as a few years ago it was him who found some obscure processor bug that resulted in an errata from the vendor — AMD in 2012.
Matt Dillon hardly needs an introduction, however, I’d just like to point out that he’s one of the few people that I really do trust to have actual knowledge on these issues, as a few years ago it was him who found some obscure processor bug that resulted in an errata from the vendor — AMD in 2012.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0136243/amd-confirms-cpu-bug-found-by-dragonfly-bsds-matt-dillon
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2012-03/msg00006.html
He was also involved in providing a public analysis of the Intel Core bugs back in 2007:
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-August/626190.html