[ale] News: Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder

[Jim Kinney]

Please check with other distros! RedHat is probably taking a lead in building a patch as they have resources. I've seen other distros issue kernel patches after rhel that are rpm based.

On January 18, 2018 11:12:50 AM EST, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>So, my question at this point:
>We haven't heard anything similar out of SUSE, and I haven't heard of 
>anything in the Debian/Ubuntu world?  Are we to assume we are "good" if
>
>we have SUSE and Debian/Ubuntu systems patched up, and that it is just 
>the RHEL world that can't get their act together?  It seems to me that 
>we are likely to hear a "me too" out of the other vendors following Red
>
>Hat's announcement.  Thoughts?  I'm going to pose the same question to
>a 
>SUSE heavy audience, see what I get, and report back . . .
>
>Allen B.
>
>On 1/18/18 7:23 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder
>> 
>>
>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firmware_update_woes/
>> 
>> Be careful out there.
>> 
>> Anyone seen system instabilities from the different layers of
>patches?
>> 
>> I've delayed patching the last few weeks to let others find most of
>the
>> issues first. ;)
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