09:45:06 <nikolam> How in general is creating new drivers and driver support going on with illumos lately? Is it avoiding bumps on security flags, taking a good pace, especially about CPU errata, what is your opinion? 
10:05:51 <nikolam> Like this, https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-discloses-31-new-cpu-vulnerabilities
19:15:02 <jclulow> I'm not sure how CPU security stuff is related to drivers
19:15:05 <jclulow> oh he is gone
19:15:07 <jclulow> sigh
19:41:10 <alanc> and the URL seemed to be about BIOS-level fixes, not OS-level
19:59:45 <jbk> well obviously our drivers resolve the issue (by not having it)! :)
20:00:40 <jbk> ... though I did mention to Alex... apparently Intel has some MSRs... because apparently certain instructions people thought were constant time turn out to not be on some platforms
20:00:56 <jbk> i don't know if that's something we'd want to look into possibly enabling
20:01:59 <jbk> (the MSR makes them constant time apparently)
20:02:08 <jbk> IIRC.. this was a while back...
20:07:31 <alanc> yeah, I think that was released over the summer
23:05:38 <alanc> I think https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/best-practices/data-operand-independent-timing-isa-guidance.html is the issue jbk mentioned above