From: | Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 | ||
Date: | Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:15:31 | ||
Message-Id: | 5554603.qA2dy5pxaE@peak | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 by Helmut Jarausch |
1 | On Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:52:30 BST Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
2 | > On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
3 | > > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable mirrors, |
4 | > > would anyone |
5 | > > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and anything |
6 | > > else that's |
7 | > > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night. |
8 | > |
9 | > I can't say anything about that kernel since I always use the most |
10 | > recent kernel available, currently 4.16.4. I haven't had any problems with |
11 | > bleeding edge gentoo-sources. AFAIR, only work around for this hardware |
12 | > problems have appeared in 4.14 or 4.15. I don't know if these have been |
13 | > backported to 4.9.95. |
14 | > |
15 | > The other fix should be a contained in a recent version |
16 | > sys-kernel/linux-firmware (I have 20180416). |
17 | |
18 | The latest stable version is 20180103-r1, which is what I have here. I don't |
19 | think I'll experiment with CPU microcode until it's fully tested and stable. |
20 | |
21 | > You might have a look at |
22 | > |
23 | > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/ |
24 | > https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/02/using-linux-kernel-4-15-minimize-meltdown |
25 | > -spectre/ |
26 | > https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-15-good-news-and-bad-news-about-meltd |
27 | > own-and-spectre/ |
28 | > https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-16-arrives-bringing-more-spectre-and-> meltdown-fixes/ |
29 | |
30 | Thanks for the pointers. |
31 | |
32 | -- |
33 | Regards, |
34 | Peter. |
Subject | Author |
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 | Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |