On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 03:22:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I think that backporting gcc-4.9 and building the kernel with it (for > x86) is lower risk than backporting the retpoline patches to gcc-4.7 > and building the kernel with that. (In fact it's not just the kernel; > if you change gcc-4.7 that has the potential to affect most updates to > wheezy, even though use of retpoline should be disabled by defaul.) > Thanks for clarifying.
I will work on backporting your patched gcc-4.9 to wheezy. Should I also start working on getting the wheezy kernel building with gcc-4.9? I understand that an upload must wait for the kernel microde update you mentioned previously. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
