On Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:52:30 BST Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable mirrors, > > would anyone > > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and anything > > else that's > > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night. > > I can't say anything about that kernel since I always use the most > recent kernel available, currently 4.16.4. I haven't had any problems with > bleeding edge gentoo-sources. AFAIR, only work around for this hardware > problems have appeared in 4.14 or 4.15. I don't know if these have been > backported to 4.9.95. > > The other fix should be a contained in a recent version > sys-kernel/linux-firmware (I have 20180416).
The latest stable version is 20180103-r1, which is what I have here. I don't think I'll experiment with CPU microcode until it's fully tested and stable. > You might have a look at > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/ > https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/02/using-linux-kernel-4-15-minimize-meltdown > -spectre/ > https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-15-good-news-and-bad-news-about-meltd > own-and-spectre/ > https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-16-arrives-bringing-more-spectre-and-> > meltdown-fixes/ Thanks for the pointers. -- Regards, Peter.
