Reply to post: Re: Desktops don't have ECC

'Rowhammer' attack flips bits in memory to root Linux

Gordan

Re: Desktops don't have ECC

"This is making use of an x86 hardware feature."

It's not an x86 specific feature per se. The testing code uses an x86 assembly instruction that bypasses CPU caches for reads. It is quite likely that similar equivalents exist on many other if not most CPU architectures.

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