> > The neowin link above has a link to a Phoronix article[1], which > suggests you need GCC 8.0, or maybe 7.3 if a backport succeeds. That was > 9 days ago, of course ... Stretch only has 6.3, and even sid only has > 7.2, so I don't see it hitting debian soon. > > Richard > > [1] > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4. > 9-4.14-Retpoline
Some new patches are coming soon: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-Variant-One-Linux-4.16 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Retpoline-Added I have posted a query on the gentoo forum asking if I have a recent enough version of gcc etc for the retpoline. There is a test program you can install and run and it will tell you if both the meltdown and spectre patched are installed which I will try out. Looks like your all going to have to run the latest kernels....(J) Regards MF
