From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Meltdown / Spectre
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87607r1gjs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9lnmb4u.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:26:09 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:06:25PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>> There's now a GCC 7.3 release candidate that apparently contains the
>>> necessary compiler support to allow linux-libre-4.14.14 to use the
>>> retpoline technique internally.
>>>
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00115.html
>>>
>>> They hope to release GCC 7.3 on January 24th. It would be good to
>>> promptly add GCC 7.3 to Guix when its released, and to start using it to
>>> build linux-libre-4.14 on selected systems: x86_64 and possibly aarch64.
>>>
>>> I'd prefer to continue using our default compiler to build linux-libre
>>> on systems where GCC 7.3 is not known to help with this issue.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this, Mark. Your plan sounds good to me.
>
> FYI, in another thread, I recently posted preliminary patches to add the
> GCC 7.3 release candidate as a Guix package, and to use it to build
> linux-libre on x86_64 and i686 systems:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-01/msg00292.html
Today’s Jan. 24th, so hopefully we can roll in these patches today!
Thank you,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-24 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-06 13:20 What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user? Alex Vong
2018-01-06 17:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-06 17:43 ` Meltdown / Spectre Leo Famulari
2018-01-06 20:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-07 6:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-07 21:23 ` bug#30015: WebKitGTK nondeterministic build failures Mark H Weaver
2018-01-09 20:14 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-01-10 5:49 ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-22 20:40 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-07 21:29 ` Meltdown / Spectre Mark H Weaver
2018-01-09 21:39 ` Alex Vong
2018-01-10 4:59 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-16 10:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-19 22:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-20 0:17 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-21 16:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-24 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-24 16:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-26 22:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-27 16:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-10 15:00 ` ng0
2018-01-08 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-10 5:27 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-07 2:44 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-08 17:22 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-01-08 18:26 ` Marius Bakke
2018-01-08 21:51 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-08 22:01 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-09 20:13 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-01-09 21:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-10 5:26 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-11 19:45 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-01-11 21:49 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-01-10 10:46 ` Tobias Platen
2018-01-10 17:20 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-10 6:43 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-01-10 18:41 ` Kei Kebreau
2018-01-16 3:58 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-17 19:20 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-14 15:11 ` Alex Vong
2018-01-09 23:10 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-10 5:04 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-16 11:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 2:38 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-10 9:36 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-10 11:49 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-01-10 12:35 ` Tobias Platen
2018-01-10 14:04 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-12 0:25 ` Marius Bakke
2018-01-15 8:07 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-16 3:08 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-16 10:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-12 7:39 ` Chris Marusich
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