On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 13:55 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi folks! > > Kernel updates for Fedora 26 and Fedora 27 are now available with > initial mitigations for both Spectre variants. As the update > description states: > > "This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. > Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for > variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further > patches, and once compiler support is improved." > > As for the Meltdown fix, the testing we're primarily interested here is > just to boot the kernel and verify that it doesn't break anything > unexpected. If the new kernel boots and works OK for you, please leave > positive feedback. > > Thanks very much! > > For extra credit, the kernel maintainers are also interested in seeing > some data from AMD users. They're interested in at least this output: > > # dmesg | grep Spectre > # grep spectre /proc/cpuinfo > > if you have an AMD CPU, it'd be great if you can post the output of > those commands on your system as a Bodhi comment. > > F26: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e6fe35524d > F27: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-21a7ad920c Update: the F27 update is now stable; not sure if the kernel team wants more debug output from AMD users, but it can't hurt, so do feel free to go ahead if you have an AMD CPU and haven't yet. The F26 update still needs more karma, and should now be in updates- testing. Can folks on F26 please install the update and provide positive feedback if it works? Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test-announce mailing list -- test-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-announce-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
