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Reboot your PC mate, the kernel needs updating.
Kpatch?
Not for the scale of changes that KPTI needs, and almost certainly not for the scale of updates they have likely missed.
Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
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Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#122This is -- to say the least -- frustrating. First, the busted microcode is still available on the Intel Download Center[1], without any warning that they recommend that you not, in fact, install it. Second, the press release is still being evasive: they have not merely "received reports"; they in fact know that it's causing issues, and the press release is avoiding the much stronger language that Intel is giving priv…
This entire issue will eventually become a case study entitled "how to fail at incident response, PR and make customers hate you"
Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#123To be fair, it can well be that some sloppy OEM drivers take too many assumptions on reserved bits in registers (which the new microcode may be legitimately changing) or on undocumented timing side-effects related to some instructions (which the new microcode may affect, being that the root problem in the first place!). These symptoms are also the classic ones you get when you install an OS on a new-generation, well-…
Don't speculate, it adds nothing but confusion.
My comment is no more speculative than those blaming the new microcode for causing reboots. The real bad quality, bad update process and unjustified binary nature of OEM firmware is too often overlooked.
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There are issues with this 'laptop' (don't put it on your lap is one), but AMD is a viable option I think.. https://imgur.com/Qsodtxv
Well AMD mobile CPUs are 4 core, so I would assume you bought one of the hackjob DTR's with a desktop CPU or just are using a desktop in a jest :P
It's a "hackjob" by Asus Republic of Gamers.
Not a home-built thing, but not what you'd call a laptop (portable, battery life) either..
Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#125Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for the scale of changes that KPTI needs, and almost certainly not for the scale of updates they have likely missed.
OpenBSD. I don't think the PTI patches are quite ready yet. Either way I'm not too worried.
Kpatch works on (or has an equivalent in) OpenBSD?
Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
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I'm thinking of building an AMD dev box. For enterprise consumers, if they're using 1U or blade servers, they could make the choice to switch to AMD for future nodes.
I have a Ryzen developer box at work and it is awesome, paired with 32GB of RAM and SSD's it absolutely screams. My next home PC will be Ryzen 2 at some point this year.
Linux or Windows? I've been doing dev on a large React app recently and the thought of running npm install on Windows makes me anxious about the performance vs my Mac - wondering if Windows has gotten better of late with lots of tiny file I/O.
Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#128Re: Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
#129My broadwell (i5-2500k) windows desktop has started blue screening like crazy if I do large continous network transfers (i.e. saturating gigabit ethernet). I didn't have this problem before I rebooted for my most recent update. I thought it might be memory, but an 8+ hour memory scan (windows internal one, not the normal linux one) didn't tickle any bad bits and its not erorring in any unique component, each time, it…
> My broadwell (i5-2500k) That's Sandy Bridge, 3 generations older than Broadwell.
and apparently with the latest news, it perhaps wasn't all in my head
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/firmware-updates-and-initial...