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Apparently the 20180108 version is faulty, so they rolled it back to 20171117. I have Manjaro on one of my laptops where the auto update mechanism keeps failing
by sverige 9y ago
Apparently the 20180108 version is faulty, so they rolled it back to 20171117. I have Manjaro on one of my laptops where the auto update mechanism keeps failing to complete the rollback because the installed version is newer. Good thing the only thing I use that for is to watch videos.
- cesarb 9y agoLuckly for you, the consensus from the kernel developers seems to be that these firmwares are only problematic if the new anti-Spectre features they expose to the kernel are actually used. The current upstream kernel doesn't use them, and the next upstream kernel will have a blacklist of the problematic firmware versions, so unless you distro patched the kernel to use these features without the blacklist, you should be safe.