On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:35:58AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Your need to upgrade to unstable (Debian Sid). Then you need to get the latest kernel from the kernel.org website.
This is not good advice to a beginner.
You also need to install GCC7 in sid which will give you version 7.3.0 at present. That is a new enough compiler to be able to properly install the spectre and meltdown fixes. Then you need to run the spectre/meltdown checker which you can get from a github site and run locally on your box to know it's really installed properly.
spectre-meltdown-checker is packaged (in sid), this is a better route to get the script as it is (or will be) adjusted to work properly on a Debian system. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
