Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:52:30 BST Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable mirrors,
> > would anyone
> > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and anything
> > else that's
> > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night.
> 
> I can't say anything about that kernel since I always use the most
> recent kernel available, currently 4.16.4. I haven't had any problems with
> bleeding edge gentoo-sources. AFAIR, only work around for this hardware
> problems have appeared in 4.14 or 4.15. I don't know if these have been
> backported to 4.9.95.
> 
> The other fix should be a contained in a recent version
> sys-kernel/linux-firmware (I have 20180416).

The latest stable version is 20180103-r1, which is what I have here. I don't 
think I'll experiment with CPU microcode until it's fully tested and stable.

> You might have a look at
> 
> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/
> https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/02/using-linux-kernel-4-15-minimize-meltdown
> -spectre/
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-15-good-news-and-bad-news-about-meltd
> own-and-spectre/
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-16-arrives-bringing-more-spectre-and-> meltdown-fixes/

Thanks for the pointers.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.