On 02/09/2018 09:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
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>> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
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> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
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> We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.
John Crispin wrote:
On 17/01/18 20:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
Hi,
This series will add support for microcode update on x86 targets,
in light of the recent security issues.
While other distributions use an early initramfs approach to update
the microcode as early as possible, in OpenWrt the ear
On 01/18/2018 11:41 PM, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
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>> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
>>
>> We even need a
>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
As far as I know, to properly mitigate spectre variant 2, it requires
update to microcode along w/ kernel support for IBRS. However, IBRS
feature was just committe
Lucian Cristian wrote:
On 19.01.2018 00:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
We even need
On 19.01.2018 00:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
We even need a patch for GCC which w
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3.
For master we shou
On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3.
For master we should backport it to GCC 5.5, but what do we want
