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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:51 AM Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> I think its more complex than just falling behind - anything later gets |
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> the spectre fixes etc. and it appears not to be quite stable yet in some |
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> cases. |
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This may have been your intent and I might be misreading your email, |
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but I just wanted to make it clear that recent longterm kernels should |
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have spectre fixes. Now, the OP's 4.9.16 obviously won't have those, |
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but that isn't the current Gentoo stable release. The current Gentoo |
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stable appears to be 4.9.95, which is from April, so I imagine it |
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wouldn't have fixes for the latest spectre variant, assuming it is |
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vulnerable. Well, that is unless it has been backported - I'm too |
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lazy to go look at the patches. I'm sure the ~arch gentoo-sources has |
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them at 4.9.109, but again I didn't check upstream logs. |
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The main reason I use upstream kernels is because between previous |
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messing around with btrfs and current use of zfs I'm a bit sensitive |
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to what kernel I'm on and my needs aren't entirely aligned with the |
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goals of the Gentoo kernel team. That isn't an indictment on them - |
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the nature of a distro is to cater to the typical user, and when |
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you're not a typical user you have to know when to deviate. The |
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ability to do this is one of Gentoo's selling points, but when you do |
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you're a bit on your own. |
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Rich |