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> They did that, just like Linux did before them. I especially like the reply to the announcement that was "uh… I hope you didn't spend these two months coming up with that solution. We already did that for Linux, so you could have just asked".

Linux developers were told about meltdown/spectre right away, but OpenBSD wasn't told until the end of the embargo over two months later.

https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-di...

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I think you misunderstood my whole point.

It appears that OpenBSD chose to spend months starting from scratch researching exactly what needed to be mapped in virtual memory, instead of just confirming the x86/x64 platform needs that were already researched and published by that time.

I'm not talking about the two months (or whatever it was) Linux had as head start. I'm talking about the post-publication ~two months.

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