Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty microcode bug

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 06/26/17 18:55, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> FYI:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/25/intel_skylake_kaby_lake_microcode_bug/
> By Richard Chirgwin 25 Jun 2017 at 23:22
> Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty microcode bug
> ...
> "users need to disable hyper-threading "immediately""
> 

For those that cannot turn off HT in the BIOS:

echo machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=0 >> /boot/loader.conf

--HPS