Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:35:58 +0000
Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your need to upgrade to unstable (Debian Sid). Then you need to get
> the latest kernel from the kernel.org website.
> You also need to install GCC7 in sid which will give you version
> 7.3.0 at present. That is a new enough compiler to be able to
> properly install the spectre and meltdown fixes.
> Then you need to run the spectre/meltdown checker which you can get
> from a github site and run locally on your box to know it's really
> installed properly.
sudo install spectre-meltdown-checker
sudo spectre-meltdown-checker
works at least in stretch.
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