On 22 June 2018 at 13:14, Dan Campbell <i...@danscomputers.ca> wrote: > Just saw the news about you disabling hyper-threading by default on Intel > CPUs for security reasons, which I agree with. It would be nice to be able > to do this on systems that don't have a toggle for it in the BIOS, as it > increases single-threaded performance. So just wondering when your latest > distro will be coming out with this change, as I see your current version > came out in April? I would like to create a Linux live DVD/flash drive that > I could boot to toggle hyper-threading off on Intel systems running Windows, > or to create a dual-boot situation for those who want to use Linux part-time. > It could also be useful for updating processor microcode, which can't be > done under Windows. Thanks, >
The current release (not distro) already has a fix for it: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.3/common/010_intelfpu.patch.sig Download 6.3 run syspatch, which will fetch all available patches for 6.3: https://www.openbsd.org/errata63.html > Dan -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info
