Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95

[John Covici]

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.

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