Will the Librem 5 have an out-of-order Pipeline and so be affected by Spectre?
As far as I have seen iMX8 is available with in-order and out-of-order Pipeline…
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ARM released a list of affected cores.
Librem5, if on imx6 soc (cortex a9) will be affected by Spectre.
But on imx8m socs (cortex a53), it is OK. Cortex a53 has no out-of-order execution, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv8-A_cores.
AFAIK, imx8quad, which is the soc of the line with OoO that you seem to refer to, has been discarded for Librem5 for power reasons.
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