[kwlug-disc] Meltown fix for Linux kernel

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:

> The Redhat issue was due to the intel microcode, as you mentioned. At
> least on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, this is not shipped in the kernel, but in a
> separate package (microcode_ctl) which has no dependency on kernel version.
> So you might be bitten by this even if you did pin your kernel.
>

I don't have any packages installed with 'microcode' or 'intel' in their
name (apart from the xorg and drm stuff).

So, this has not affected any of my desktops or servers, yet.

I run Ubuntu on everything.
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