[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> 
> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
> 
> We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3.
> For master we should backport it to GCC 5.5, but what do we want to do
> with 17.01 and 15.05 ?
> 
> The AMD microcoded updater needs at least kernel 4.15, 4.14.13, 4.9.76,
> 4.4.111  which we already have.
> 
> Hauke


For those of us following this from the sidelines (but not too closely), what’s the relationship of GCC to microcode updating?

-Philip