On Mon 29 Jan 2018 at 09:17:14 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/29/2018 08:52 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:37:54AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:29:33AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>>I've seen comments such as that before. > >>>But I've not seen anything about "What is KPTI or how to use it". > >>> > >>KPTI - kernel page table isolation > > > >[...] > > > >>The Wikipedia article on the subject is much more informative, if you > >>want to go deeper. > > > >Indeed -- a visit to the Internet Library of Alexandria (aka Wikipedia) > >should be mandatory these days (quick! before someone burns it down :-) > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPTI > > > > Mea [not quite] culpa > I quit reading before the last sentence as it was talking about > implementation details without any evident interest in Joe End User.
Well, certain end users seem to be very impatient for a fix before the true scale of the problem has been fully appreciated. > And that last sentence was not really informative. IMHO You never know these days. We may eventually look back at Wikipedia with nostalgia. Remember Net Neutrality, Fairness Doctrine, …? > There has been a similar tendency in this and related threads. No idea of what is meant and in what. Cheers, David.
