On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 07:50:48AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > p.s. I still hope to get Meltdown/Spectre patches for linux-4.1.x > > i686 builds. > > As Linux 4.1 is a longterm series, you should get these patches. > Though, I’d just update to the latest Linux kernel release, also for > finding regressions, if you are interested in i686 working well. >
A second version of the i686 meltdown patches were posted this week. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/5/173 - I guess in a few weeks a later version will get into Linus's tree and then into the maintained kernels. For Spectre, I think the amelioration is already in the stable trees, certainly it's in 4.9 and I think it will work on i686, with gcc-7.3 for the full mitigation. But I agree meltdown is the bigger problem. But no, building on most i686 machines became painful years ago (for typical home users, the memory was small and, by current standards, slow). Today, x86_64 with less than 8GB can be painful when building some packages. ĸen -- Truth, in front of her huge walk-in wardrobe, selected black leather boots with stiletto heels for such a barefaced truth. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
