Joyent's illumos fix for the Meltdown vulnerability is nearing completion and so we have produced some test images and, along with Openindiana and SmartOS, are asking people to install and test on as wide a range of machines as possible.
We've provided this as a hotfix so it can easily be installed into a new BE by anyone running OmniOS bloody. Have a look at https://omniosce.org/article/kpti for instructions and some useful mdb commands to check the installation afterwards. Please see the original announcement message that was posted to other lists. If you can, please test and provide feedback. Thanks, Andy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:46:50 +0000 From: John Levon <john.le...@joyent.com> Reply-To: illumos-developer <develo...@lists.illumos.org> To: oi-...@openindiana.org, develo...@lists.illumos.org, smartos-disc...@lists.smartos.org Subject: [developer] [call for testing] KPTI images Hi all, please see below for test images for the various distributions. These images include the KPTI (and PCID) work done by Joyent up to the current kpti-squash branch. They are non-DEBUG except as noted. As before, any and all testing is useful, especially with "weird" things like LDT-using code, older machines, etc. Thanks to Aur?lien Larcher and Andy Fiddaman for building the OI and OmniOS images below. thanks john OpenIndiana: http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/kpti/ OmniOSce (bloody): # pkg update pkg # pkg apply-hot-fix --be-name=kpti https://downloads.omniosce.org/pkg/bloody/kpti.p5p # init 6 or for DEBUG bits: # pkg apply-hot-fix --be-name=kpti https://downloads.omniosce.org/pkg/bloody/kpti-DEBUG.p5p SmartOS: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/jlevon/public/bits/kpti/platform-20180305T101513Z.iso https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/jlevon/public/bits/kpti/platform-20180305T101513Z.tgz ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-developer Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/discussions/T4c9a8fdfb8301f10-Mdd69563eb3591402853dce82 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups -- Citrus IT Limited | +44 (0)333 0124 007 | enquir...@citrus-it.co.uk Rock House Farm | Green Moor | Wortley | Sheffield | S35 7DQ Registered in England and Wales | Company number 4899123 _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
