[OpenPower-Firmware] security fixes for meltdown/spectre on P8

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 23 16:56:42 AEDT 2018


Sergey Kachkin <s.kachkin at gmail.com> writes:
> from the published info i realised that both OS and FW patches are needed
> for CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 issues mitigation.
>
> Are there any plans/timeline for including related fixes into P8 PNOR?

You'll have to ask the vendor of your machine when they plan on shipping
firmware updates.

Otherwise, we can talk about what code is upstream if you're building
everything yourself.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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