Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> said: > "We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system > manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of > current versions." Current versions of what? Microcode? Well, that's the only thing Intel provides for CPUs, so that's all it can be. > What these means for people who have CPUs which were not crashing > (rebooting being a new euphemism for crashing) , but saw variant 2 > Spectre mitigation with the 20180108 microcode, will lose full > mitigation until Intel gets its ducks into a row. Lots of people weren't seeing issues, but that's in part because Intel's updated microcode release only actually updated microcode for recent CPUs. I have many servers that aren't crashing, but that's because Intel hasn't actually even tried to fix the microcode for their CPUs yet. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>