On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Manjukumar Harthikote Matha
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi RP,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Richard Purdie
>> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:36 AM
>> To: openembedded-core <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Yocto Project, Spectre and Meltdown
>>
>> On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 11:38 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> > I just wanted to give people an update on where the project stands
>> > with these issues.
>>
>> Master now contains gcc and kernel fixes (in linux-yocto). meta-yocto- bsp 
>> updates
>> are still pending.
>>
>> rocko-next also has those fixes and is undergoing testing which if it 
>> passes, will get
>> pushed to rocko.
>>
>
> I see that rocko-next branch is upgrading the GCC version to 7.3 from 7.2 , 
> is there a reason to do so?
> I was under the impression that we would backport the security fixes to 7.2 
> version.
>

point releases are bugfix releases of gcc, I think you can look at it
as cumulative bugfixes backport.

If you are concerned about some of the fixes in this

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=7.3

please let us know.

-Khem
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