Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 17:19 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: ... >> >> > Can I compile it away? >> >> You can't actually, but you can disable it at runtime with >> "nospectre_v1" on the kernel command line. >> >> We could make it a user selectable compile time option if you really >> want it to be. > > I think yes. Considering that these patches are fairly untested and the impact > in the wild unknown. Requiring systems to change their boot config over night is > too fast. OK. Just to be clear, you're actually using 4.14 on an NXP board and would actually use this option? I don't want to add another option just for a theoretical use case. cheers
