From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Any objections to removing linux-libre@4.1? Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:33:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3t2eeh7.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87wp8suvs4.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36031) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIyVL-0001u6-Ar for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:33:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIyVG-0001FH-FF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:33:43 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIyVG-0001Ea-7V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:33:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wp8suvs4.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > Does anyone here still need linux-libre@4.1 in Guix? If not, I'd like > to remove it. Is this not the only version of Linux libre that does not expose the system clock bug Libreboot users suffer from? I’m still using 4.1 on one of my machines for that reason until I can upgrade Libreboot. > Upstream security updates for it seem to be quite infrequent (2.5 months > between the last two releases), and the recent update to 4.1.40 > neglected to include a fix for CVE-2017-6074, which does not inspire > confidence. Indeed. Thank you for checking. > What do you think? It would be nice if it turned out that I’m wrong about 4.1 being needed for older versions of Libreboot. That’s my only objection to removing it, but since that can be fixed by upgrading to a more recent Libreboot (although that may be messy) I think it’s okay to remove it. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net