On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:15:23AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote I installed it today, having run into a few mysterious *TOTAL* lockups under 4.12.something (could not ssh in and magic-SysRQ didn't work).
Anyhow, "make oldconfig" asked a couple of questions about "retpoline" and switching off user access to kernel memory under some context switches. I played safe and enabled the protections. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications