Hi Sashi/Dell,

What about the original complaint of my original e-mail (which the subject
of this e-mail alludes to)?? (See
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2018-April/051685.html
and
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2018-April/051695.html)

I was fully expecting that it would take a little while until the update
shows up in DSU and that's fine.

The problem is that, even after it does show up in DSU, the update *still
won't work* in doing what it claims to do. As I mentioned, it does *not* do
anything to address the Spectre vulnerability on R815 systems running
Opteron 6200 or 6300 series processors (including Opteron 6378), which this
BIOS update is specifically supposed to address. Why is this?

Any explanations/updates on that??

Thanks.

--
Matt Vander Werf
HPC System Administrator
University of Notre Dame
Center for Research Computing - Union Station
506 W. South Street
South Bend, IN 46601

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Latest R815 BIOS (SWB - PDFYH) is not yet carried in 18.04.00 DSU
> repository(latest available) as it is released after our repository refresh.
> We refresh DSU repository 3rd week of every month.
> Since the current available repository was refreshed on 20th of April,
> next repository refresh (18th of May) shall carry this update.
>
> Regards,
> Sashi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K, Sashi
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 11:12 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't
> mitigate Spectre
>
> Hi,
>
> We'll check and get back to you at the earliest.
>
> Regards,
> Sashi
>
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of lejeczek
> Sent: 27 April 2018 19:17
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] R815 BIOS updates to mitigate Spectre don't
> mitigate Spectre
>
>
>
> On 27/04/18 14:24, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Dear lejeczek,
> >
> >
> > On 04/27/18 15:18, lejeczek wrote:
> >> more importantly !! why dsu does not find this new BIOS versions -
> >> @dell guys?
> >
> > Why is your issue more important?
>
> Why?? Maybe because
> https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/ references this mailing list,
> and though not exclusively, mainly Dell tech team is here for that reason.
>
> And nowhere near hijacking - if Dell guys read this they should see these
> are directly connected. And since, I'd imagine most of us here use DSU we
> are disappointed again that we learn again(this way) that maintenance of
> the repo is bit shoddy.(nothing to do whit you)
>
> >
> > And, please be more polite, and do not hijack threads, and follow the
> > netiquette – [1] is one example.
> >
> > Anyway, from the device page for my system I get with the service tag,
> > I find [2].
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
> > [2]
> > http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?drive
> > rId=PDFYH
> >
>
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