On 03/01/18 16:11, Arjen Lentz via luv-main wrote:
> This raises the interesting question: will distros start to provide > separate kernel packages for Intel and AMD CPUs. I'd guess they will, > as the performance hit of the KPTI workaround is significant.
They won't need to, as the mitigation is loaded at runtime and AMD's provided kernel patch prevents the slow KPTI workaround from being loaded when AMD CPUs are detected.

Cheers,
        Andrew