Re: [lfs-support] The Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:47:00PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > > > I might be confused, but I thought microcode updates on consumer processors > is handled by BIOS update from the motherboard manufacturer, the AGESA part > of the BIOS version, currently 1.0.0.7. I'm not sure if we'll see a >

[lfs-support] Status report from Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Re: [lfs-support] The Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

On 01/07/2018 04:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:43:11PM -0500, Michael Shell wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:26:13 + Ken Moffat wrote: Does anybody have a link for (any) updated AMD firmware? Ryzen is model 17h, AFAICS linux firmware has

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation

>> Likewise, I'm not betting kernel patches will get pushed down >> to the kernels that support those old systems. ext3 is not >> supported in the latest kernels, so instructions to install >> the latest kernels will leave many systems non-functional. >> I think patches need to be pushed back to