Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>]

On 31 January 2018 at 18:31, Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:

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.

​As it turns out I have installed debian on a usb before and booted it up successfully.

It did occur to me that you could advise the new users to buy a raspberry pi computer

and use that to run sid and then install the kernel on my from it.

Then I would have one machine which apparently cannot be infected with meltdown and spectre

with both sid and the spectre enabled kernel on it (raspberry pi) due its architecture

​and my PC running buster with the same kernel ported to it but I don't really need it because

I already have it in my Gentoo installation:

ie Dumb and Dumber Heh Heh!

Cheers

MF

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Regards

Michael

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