On 01/02/18 11:51, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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> On 31 January 2018 at 22:46, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz
> <mailto:richard@walnut.gen.nz>> wrote: Ah ... well in that case, why not cross-compile on a Windows box? :-)
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> On 01/02/18 11:20, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > 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
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> A complicated and expensive solution. The Pi being a different
> architecture means you'd need to take extra steps to cross-compile the
> kernel. A virtual machine, chroot, container or whatever is much cheaper
> and simpler.
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> I agree. It's much a better idea. But we were actively trying to be
> dumb in these exchanges for a bit of fun......
I guess firing up an AWS or Linode or something sounds much too sane (it
might even be easier than setting up a local VM, depending where your
capabilities lie).
Richard