Re: Meltdown/spectre patches.

2018-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:12:04PM +, Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Rather than bother the main kernel list with what is going on, does anybody 
> know if the latest source code on kernel.org contains the patches, or do I 
> need to apply externally?

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/ should answer this
for you.

sorry,

greg k-h

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Re: Help

2018-01-07 Thread Ozgur
  06.01.2018, 19:46, "Farouk Maâboudallah" :Good evening everyone :) Hello, I'm new here with you guys. I have been using Linux for 6 months ... And now I'm looking forward to develop and improve my skills.I'm a student in digital mechanics which means developing, programming and simulating in mechanical engineering. I have C, Matlab and Python as a background (another code for simulation like ansys, abaqus, ...). Now, I want to learn how to develop linux kernel or something like that ... Any helps, any suggestion are welcome :) Firstly, you need to started is get the kernel and looking the Documentation directory and one of the most important CodinStyle and SubmittingPatches files. $ git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git$ cd linux/Documentation$ ls CodingStyle SubmittingPatches Read: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHackinghttps://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild clone to branch on git and workaround: $ cd linux$ git branch devel$ git checkout devel I think some command needed your working: $ cd linux$ make prepare$ make modules_prepare Maybe you should try first compile kernel :) $ cd linux$ make -j4$ sudo make modules_install$ sudo make install Thanks,Linuxely For GNU/UNIXFor free software,  Regards Ozgur --P Pour préserver notre environnement, merci de n'imprimer cet Email que si nécessaire  !___
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Meltdown/spectre patches.

2018-01-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all,

Rather than bother the main kernel list with what is going on, does anybody 
know if the latest source code on kernel.org contains the patches, or do I need 
to apply externally?

Thanks,

Nick

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