Re: Better communication about spectre/meltdown
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 03:22:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> I think that backporting gcc-4.9 and building the kernel with it (for
> x86) is lower risk than backporting the retpoline patches to gcc-4.7
> and building the kernel with that. (In fact it's not just the kernel;
> if you change gcc-4.7 that has the potential to affect most updates to
> wheezy, even though use of retpoline should be disabled by defaul.)
>
Thanks for clarifying.
I will work on backporting your patched gcc-4.9 to wheezy. Should I also
start working on getting the wheezy kernel building with gcc-4.9? I
understand that an upload must wait for the kernel microde update you
mentioned previously.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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