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Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:55:27PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> > is there a debdiff / source available as well?
> 
> Above URL includes the source, but no debdiff (you can simply debdiff against
> the latest jessie package).

seems I overlooked that on the first glance. functionally identical to our
parallel work, which is probably a good sign.

> 
> > or is it "just" Jessie's current state plus the 9 patches from hjl's 4.9
> > backport branch?
> 
> hjl's patches and some modifications dropping the texinfo which are stripped
> for DFSGish reasons.

and also don't apply as-is anyway ;)

> 
> > (and is the Stretch / gcc-6 update planned in the same
> > time frame as well?)
> 
> Yes, an update for GCC 6 is also in the works, but will probably a few days
> after the jessie update.

any special reason for that? (out of curiosity, since we had also
already prepared a gcc-6 package based on Stretch 6.3.0-18 using the
same approach which seems to work fine so far..)

> 
> > anyway, will report back with some test results (with a custom 4.4-based
> > kernel) tomorrow.

no issues cropped up during intial internal testing, so we'll probably
publish a public test kernel tomorrow and wait for more feedback.

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retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-13 23:10 +0100
  Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> - 2018-02-14 16:30 +0100
    Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-14 23:00 +0100
      Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> - 2018-02-15 15:20 +0100
        Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-15 22:20 +0100
        Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-17 14:40 +0100
          Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-02-17 20:10 +0100
            Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie who.are.you@posteo.no - 2018-02-18 10:40 +0100
              Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2018-02-19 20:30 +0100
            Re: retpoline-enabled GCC build for jessie Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-22 23:00 +0100

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