From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:52:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NDBI3U37.T22V3QHP.UHETMQXB@BCU4ZORL.3U34GA74.QQD3PBJS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1599701.glEH7cqri9@peak> (from peter@prh.myzen.co.uk on Wed Apr 25 18:06:32 2018)
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).
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-meltdown-and-spectre/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-16-arrives-bringing-more-spectre-and-meltdown-fixes/
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 16:06 [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 Peter Humphrey
2018-04-26 9:52 ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2018-04-26 9:57 ` John Covici
2018-04-26 10:13 ` Adam Carter
2018-04-26 10:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-26 10:43 ` Adam Carter
2018-04-26 11:42 ` Mick
2018-04-27 5:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-27 7:01 ` Mick
2018-04-27 17:20 ` Klaus Ethgen
2018-04-27 18:51 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-27 18:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-27 5:44 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-04-26 10:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2018-04-26 20:44 ` Walter Dnes
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