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

[Hauke Mehrtens]

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