[arch-proaudio] 4.14.18-rt15 Intel Spectre v2 broken microcode detected

[Joakim Hernberg]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:00:14 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* Mitigation: PTI
> Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
> Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
> 
> ...means that they are enabled?

Yes, how well they protect the system is of course another question,
and I'm not 100% sure where the Intel ucode fits in all this.  But it
seems fairly clear that Intel dropped the ball on all of this including
firmware updates...

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   Joakim