Request for testers: glibc update to work around Intel TSX errata microcode_ctl problems.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 09/28/2014 01:24 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/26/2014 02:34 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> Developers.
>>>
>>> Testers wanted immediately for:
>>>
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.18-16.fc20
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.20-4.fc21
>>
>> For FC21 was missed a case where TSX was being used and had
>> to push one more update -5 to cover this case.
> 
> Does that update still make sense given that the kernel / dracut
> update enables early microcode loading?

What about the case where the user runs a custom kernel?

Cheers,
Carlos.