From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 803D11382C5 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B562EE08BB; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E441E0870 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fBdvv-0001RV-Ig for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:15:23 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:15:23 +0100 Message-ID: <5554603.qA2dy5pxaE@peak> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03b-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: ccba3475-817d-4ed0-a5dd-c57cd0b438c5 X-Archives-Hash: 9ac682d70233bfe024111eabf60f900c 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.