Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:54:36 +0000
Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> What about if you became sid, made the spectre kernel and backed it up
> on a usb drive
> and then you backed up the work files and wiped the entire installation
> and then
> reinstalled stretch.
> 
> Could you then install the kernel on the usb drive or is that not
> possible and, like full gender reassignment surgery
> there really is no going back as it were.......?

Maybe it would be a little less of "DIY-lobotomy" (or "gender
reassignment", whichever you prefer :) if you install sid onto the usb
drive instead and leave your default system intact.
But then, if you are running buster and desperately want to
build your own kernel *now*, you could probably just replace buster's
gcc-7.2 with sid's 7.3 to keep you going.

Regards

Michael

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