Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> is there a debdiff / source available as well?

Above URL includes the source, but no debdiff (you can simply debdiff against
the latest jessie package).

> or is it "just" Jessie's current state plus the 9 patches from hjl's 4.9
> backport branch?

hjl's patches and some modifications dropping the texinfo which are stripped
for DFSGish reasons.

> (and is the Stretch / gcc-6 update planned in the same
> time frame as well?)

Yes, an update for GCC 6 is also in the works, but will probably a few days
after the jessie update.

> anyway, will report back with some test results (with a custom 4.4-based
> kernel) tomorrow.

Thanks.

Cheers,
        Moritz