On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:47:54 +0100 > Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > >> Have the x86 features been marked as stable? If the answer is yes, >> shall we mark these patches for stable as well? > > Doesn't look like it. > > TBH, I'm not quite sure whether this should go into stable as I'm a bit > unclear what our use case for stable is. It seems to be mostly "don't > let people run into known crashes" or something like that.
I read the public statement [1] as "... non-x86 processors ... backported to recent stable releases." or did the changes in discussion here end up structurally so different that this doesn't apply anymore? [1]: https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/
