Re: CERT Advisory: #144389 Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat (ROBOT)

Some will always find an excuse to wait. Many of those on 7.1 are on
hardware that supported nothing higher than 7.1. Those people waited on
Power 6, Power 7 and Power 8 and still didn't move. Dollars to doughnuts
the Power 9 servers will not support 7.1 anyway. My 8286 Power 8 required
that you be at least on 7.1 TR8.
IBM has sworn that there will be no futher TR's for 7.1. A TR would
normally be required for such new hardware. IBM made one exception. They
did come out with one resave of 7.1 without a TR. Kind of a way to skate
around the edge of the "no further TR's for 7.1" proclamation.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022066
That was just for some additional Power 8 features, not for Power 8 itself
though. That was in TR8.
I do not see them doing it for Power 9.


Rob Berendt