On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
Boot with "nopti" kernel option.
Is there any way to create like a live CD that could run the checks regardless of the installed OS? On my machine with the older 3.16 kernel, it showed not vulnerable, but is that the case or is it because the kernel was too old for the check to work properly? Further, something that can do some simple benchmarks to see how much the fixes will slow them down. I have some older Pentium 4 systems that I will have to find time to put up and install a newer install on and see if they show vulnerable. It would be interesting to see if the older machines would need a different type of exploit that the newer chips. If so, then this could create a new second class of older machines that will never see a proper fix since so few of them are still in use. One more way to try to push people to buy newer hardware when what they have is working perfectly fine. Or, it could be that the fix doesn't slow down the older chips as much and they may not have more value since the newest chips are getting the slowdown. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org