Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:19:32
Message-Id: 5EDEE231-7541-4DC7-A91B-2B670B762D72@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3 by Alessandro Barbieri
1 > On 23 Jul 2021, at 18:11, Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > IIUC, it will disable CPU microcode updates. The code being removed is
4 > entirely free (but it could load some non-free third-party microcode).
5 > Do we really endorse that, from a security (spectre, meltdown, etc.)
6 > point of view?
7 >
8 > rt-sources aren't supported by the kernel team
9
10 I'm not sure it makes much of a difference to just say this, really. It doesn't
11 help folks or stop us questioning if it's helpful to keep it (unmasked).

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