Does this mean re-installing Debain is the best way to mitigate Spectre? If yes, would re-installing Debian from now (and onwards) be a good time to avoid Spectre vulnerabilities?
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 02:35:22PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > The update for gcc-4.9 has just been released. > > Test packages for gcc-6/stretch are now available at > > https://people.debian.org/~jmm/gcc6/ > > Thanks for your work on this, Moritz. > > I have a stupid/uninformed question: is this gcc only useful for > rebuilding the kernel or would it "in theory" (and practice) be better > to rebuild everything with it? (of course the latter is probably not really > practical for Debian, but others could do it more easily.) > > > -- > cheers, > Holger
