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It's referring to Intel processors with hardware IBRS support, e.g.: Coffee Lake Refresh (e.g.: 9700, 9900) and newer. On those CPUs, Windows also makes use of IBRS alongside retpoline compilation of the kernel. See the table[1] in the linked article.

1: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/retbl...



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