On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:41:07 +0100
Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:
> When I check /proc/cpuinfo I see that "msr" is listed in the "flags"
> section. So why doesn't the driver load automagically?
> But then, at least with the version of the checker-script here, it
> doesn't seem to make any difference, at least for whatever the script
> tries.
> Don't know if enabling msr will do me any good otherwise.
Update:
just checked with my laptop (Intel/Baytrail); it is the same with msr,
module not loaded automatically, when loaded manually the contents
of /dev/cpu/0 look just as on my AMD desktop machine. The output of the
checker script still says "No" in the lines referring to msr.
*BUT*, since I finally managed to compile 4.15.rc9 with gcc-7.3, the
script claims the laptop is no longer vulnerable to "Spectre2".
I think I'll count that as success and call it a night now :-)
Best regards
Michael
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