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ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 64bit Xenial/Bionic compatible 4.19.44 kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with the no firmware option. Is partially Zombieload mitigated. Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated (except 3a). Needs firmware by making own (or using another) fdrv . Uses performance cpu governor by default (max speed). This is the first kernel I've made with the Bionic64 DOTconfig - tested OK in Bionicpup64 (& Slacko64 with path modified to /usr/lib64 in zdrv) - a bit slower than original. Use at own risk.
See: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.19.44-64oz.tar.bz2

peebee · Posted: Mon 20 May 2019, 04:44 Post subject:

64-bit 5.1.x now available:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028625#1028625

musher0 · Posted: Mon 20 May 2019, 05:25 Post subject:

Nobody's building 32-bit kernels anymore, eh?

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

@musher - peebee has built some 32bit. Trying 4.9.177 pae later.
The zombieload mitigation kernels have just been released, so we make what we can test (& use) first, then others. I have a Slacko64 4.14.120 kernel compiling now (takes me 3+ hours). Am posting using Peebee's 5.1.3 64bit kernel in Slacko64-700rc3 - works so well I may not bother posting 4.14.120. (EDIT - won't post - didn't work well. Sticking with my 4.19.44 as slow FAT access with others).

peebee · Posted: Mon 20 May 2019, 07:01 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Mon 20 May 2019, 08:21 Post subject:

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 32bit 4.9.177 i686 pae kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with firmware included. No fdrv needed. Is partially Zombieload mitigated. Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated (except 3a). Tested OK in upupbb-18.05 (posting from it) - a bit slower than original. Use at own risk.
See: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.9.177-4Goz.tar.bz2

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 64bit Slacko compatible 4.19.46 kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with the no firmware option. Is partially Zombieload mitigated. Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated (except 3a). Needs firmware by making own (or using another) fdrv . Tested OK in Slacko64-700rc3 & ScPup64-19.01. Use at own risk.
See: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.19.46-s64oz.tar.bz2

peebee · Posted: Thu 30 May 2019, 03:42 Post subject:

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

Peebee - I get the same result as you. I had read Greg K-H suggesting SMT disabling in kernels released after 15th May was the CURRENT mitigation, along with microcode updates. Perhaps I should say PARTIALLY mitigated. As I understand it, this is as good as it gets for now.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 30 May 2019, 10:42 Post subject:

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 64bit 4.14.123 Slacko64 compatible kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with no firmware - fdrv needed. Is partially Zombieload mitigated (needs microcode). Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated (except 3a). Tested OK in Slacko64, ScPup64 & also upupbb-18.05 (with lib path change in zdrv). Use at own risk. See:
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.14.123-64oz.tar.bz2
** SUPERSEDED - see below **

ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

As of 21/7/19, the following aufs versions need to be quoted in build.conf when making current kernels.
(My 4.14.123 64 bit kernel & later aware of this).
4.9.94+
4.14.73+
4.19.17+
5.x-rcN
5.2-20190715
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ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 64bit 4.14.127 Slacko64 compatible kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with no firmware - fdrv needed. Is partially Zombieload mitigated (needs microcode - see this howto: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1030115#1030115). Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated. Is TCP_SACK mitigated. Tested OK in Slacko64 & ScPup64. Use at own risk.
Kernel here: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.14.127-64oz.tar.bz2

NOTE: Cannot be used in ubuntu clones unless path /usr/lib64 changed to /usr/lib in kernel-modules.sfs-... file (add .sfs to end) via this:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028687#1028687
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ozsouth · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 564 Location: S.E Australia

I've made a 64bit 4.14.131 Slacko64 compatible kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with no firmware - fdrv needed. Is partially Zombieload mitigated (needs microcode - see this howto: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1030115#1030115). Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated. Is TCP_SACK mitigated. Tested OK in Slacko64 & ScPup64. Use at own risk. Kernel here:
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels/huge-4.14.131-64oz.tar.bz2
NOTE: Cannot be used in ubuntu clones or with 32bit pups on 64 bit cpu unless path /usr/lib64 changed to /usr/lib in kernel-modules.sfs-... file (add .sfs to end) via this: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028687#1028687