On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:31:50 +0100 Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote:
> 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/ OK, that would read as "do backport". (The x86 patches I saw didn't carry an explicit cc:stable.)
