Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day!

Pjotr Prins writes: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:45:33PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: >> It's a little last minute, but I'm thinking of going. It'd be really >> great to meet people in person and also to be able to go to FOSDEM! >> Would there still be enough room for

offloading issues again

guix offload test works. however when I try to actually build on the machine, some part fails. any advice on what could be wrong? guix build --no-grafts --verbosity=10 icecat [snip, too long] | | building of `/gnu/store/7725ig6g69ah748xkgyxb3wgsdmw6kai-fcitx-4.2.8.6.drv': waitee

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> >> >>> I think the real and thornier question for GuixSD >>> is: if the recent CPU vulnerabilities require a >>> microcode update to fully mitigate, then

Re: core-updates warning: Not ready for GuixSD deployment

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:13:51AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > After rebooting, I found that my user's numerical ID had changed, so I > > no longer owned any of my files. Not being able to read ~/.ssh means you > > can't log in remotely. > > >

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:46:46AM +0100, Tobias Platen wrote: > The Talos II is a free-er system. And its processor (the POWER9) does not > seem to be affected by Meltdown/Sprectre [1]. > > [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/RaptorCompSys?p=s The Talos teams says that their POWER8 and POWER9

Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Alex, The libreboot mailing list is down, so you can't CC it at the moment. I was notified about this thread. There's not much we can do from the Libreboot side, but there are mitigations on kernel side... since it's exploitable from javascript

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

I don't believe that making a microcode update available makes the situation worse. An earlier version is a non-free component of the system anyway. I believe, that it might well worth to provide the possibility to update it. I think it would be beneficial, if we got a singned blob for that,

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Alex Vong transcribed 1.7K bytes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > >> I just followed this up with a Spectre mitigation for WebKitGTK+ > >> backported from upstream WebKit: > >> > >> > >>

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

I don't know if this serves as guidance as to if microcode is functional or not, but from [1] I quote: #+BEGIN_QUOTE However, there is an exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Alex Vong writes: > Hello, > > I hope this is on topic. Recently, 2 critical vulnerabilities (see > https://meltdownattack.com/) affecting virtually all intel cpus are > discovered. I am running libreboot x200 (see > https://www.fsf.org/ryf). What should I do right now to

Re: core-updates warning: Not ready for GuixSD deployment

Leo Famulari skribis: > After rebooting, I found that my user's numerical ID had changed, so I > no longer owned any of my files. Not being able to read ~/.ssh means you > can't log in remotely. > > Additionally, several of root's "dotfiles" had been replaced with their >