Hi folks! Kernel updates for Fedora 26 and Fedora 27 are now available with initial mitigations for both Spectre variants. As the update description states:
"This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches, and once compiler support is improved." As for the Meltdown fix, the testing we're primarily interested here is just to boot the kernel and verify that it doesn't break anything unexpected. If the new kernel boots and works OK for you, please leave positive feedback. Thanks very much! For extra credit, the kernel maintainers are also interested in seeing some data from AMD users. They're interested in at least this output: # dmesg | grep Spectre # grep spectre /proc/cpuinfo if you have an AMD CPU, it'd be great if you can post the output of those commands on your system as a Bodhi comment. F26: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e6fe35524d F27: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-21a7ad920c Both updates are currently 'pending' and have not yet reached updates- testing; keen testers can get the package from Koji and update as I suggested before: download the new versions of the important packages (at least kernel, kernel-core, and kernel-modules) and run 'dnf update kernel*.rpm'. Otherwise, the packages should reach the mirrors in a few hours. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test-announce mailing list -- test-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-announce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
