Re: Debian Sid spectre-meltdown

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 02/21/2018 08:30 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> On 21 February 2018 at 16:25, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > As reported by Linus kernel 4.15 would have the spectre-meltdown fix,
> > Debian Sid just got 4.15 and I installed it on both AMD and Intel and then
> > I ran the spectre-meltdown-checker and Sid is no longer vulnerable to
> > Spectre-1,2 or 3/meltdown. It should be in Buster soon.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Jimmy Johnson
>
> ​Heroic stuff.......  Excellent news.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> MF

> > Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma 5.12.1 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8


Buster, after making sure buster was up to date and clean I added sid 
sources and installed anything that was a new package or upgrade package 
with the name linux and then removed the sid sources, clean and upgraded 
I rebooted to the 4.15 kernel with no problem, ran the 
spectre-meltdown-checker and was not vulnerable.

The AMD A8-7600 needed 12 packages, it has non-free nvidia driver. Not 
vulnerable.
The Intel i7-3540 only needed 5 packages. Not vulnerable.
KDE Plasma 5.12 Desktop on both.

Cheers,
--
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.12.0 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7
Registered Linux User #380263