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 82C031382C5 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E182EE086E; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a2-out-001.smtp25.com (a2-out-001.smtp25.com [50.201.66.168]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6DC1EE0835 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id w3Q9vnKH027874 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:57:49 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.13.7/Submit) id w3Q9vnKl027873; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:57:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:57:49 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 In-Reply-To: References: <1599701.glEH7cqri9@peak> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/26 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems 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 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamH-Filter: a2-out-001.smtp25.com-w3Q9vnBS013466 X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-Archives-Salt: 4aff2e38-3356-4267-8fe8-e4627dad5faf X-Archives-Hash: 8c2e9226bd7208c6d2c0e1c9664c3232 On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:52:30 -0400, 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). > > 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/ > As far as I know anything after 4.9.82 has all the fixes for meltdown/spectra which have been back ported since this is a long term release -- I am sure 4.9.95 will be even better and I will go to it myself in the next days. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com