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

[Beddingfield, Allen]

I'm going to throw the question out to some SUSE folks and see what 
answer I get.  They would be the other one with the resources for 
independent testing . . .

On 1/18/18 10:16 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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