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		aseipp on Aug 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to talk to your parents about hardware memory ... MPX is dead, but memory protection keys are a distinct feature and work fine (with some limitations); I haven't seen anything about them being removed at all and Intel doesn't note them in their deprecated features list. AMD even added support for them in Zen3.

chc4 on Aug 9, 2024 [–]

Oh, TIL. I was under the impression they were both removed , and didn't know AMD had it either.

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