On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:35:58 +0000 Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ​Your need to upgrade to unstable (Debian Sid). Then you need to get > the latest kernel from the kernel.org website. > You also need to install GCC7 in sid which will give you version > 7.3.0 at present. That is a new enough compiler to be able to > properly install the spectre and meltdown fixes. > Then you need to run the spectre/meltdown checker which you can get > from a github site and run locally on your box to know it's really > installed properly.
sudo install spectre-meltdown-checker sudo spectre-meltdown-checker works at least in stretch.