On 02/09/2018 09:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > >> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de> wrote: >> >> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: >>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to >>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. >> >> We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3. >> For master we should backport it to GCC 5.5, but what do we want to do >> with 17.01 and 15.05 ? >> >> The AMD microcoded updater needs at least kernel 4.15, 4.14.13, 4.9.76, >> 4.4.111 which we already have. >> >> Hauke > > > For those of us following this from the sidelines (but not too closely), > what’s the relationship of GCC to microcode updating? > > -Philip
GCC 7.3 supports retpoline which helps to mitigate one of the Spectre variants. Some of the mitigations are already done by some ASM code in the kernel, but not everything. The microcode update will provides some extra registers or instructions to also mitigate Spectre or help the software to mitigate it. Intel released here a plan which CPUs will get an updated microcode and in which state it is: https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/02/microcode-update-guidance.pdf Hauke _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
