[05:25] <dilinger> BenC: *poke*
[06:48] <fabbione> morning guys
[02:54] <BenC> hey
[02:55] <fabbione> hey BenC 
[02:55] <fabbione> BenC: how is it going?=
[02:55] <BenC> pretty good
[02:55] <BenC> fabbione: did any of the other security patches in your 2.6.10 upload have to do with 2.6.12?
[02:56] <fabbione> BenC: we have one or two patches we need to portfoward from .10 to .12
[02:56] <fabbione> BenC: i was planning to do it tomorrow
[02:56] <BenC> can you send them to me?
[02:56] <BenC> I can get to them today
[02:57] <fabbione> there is the hyperthreading patch (it's already in the archive)
[02:57] <fabbione> and we need to check CAN-2005-1913
[02:57] <fabbione> the hyperthreading one is a very old CAN
[02:57] <BenC> already in the 2.6.12 archive?
[02:57] <fabbione> no.. it's in .10 only
[02:57] <fabbione> and we need to portforward it to .12
[02:57] <fabbione> i did recheck all the security stuff while i was doing .10
[02:57] <fabbione> and we miss that one in .12
[02:58] <fabbione> and need to check the one for 1913
[02:58] <fabbione> it was in .10 package for long time, but never applied
[02:58] <fabbione> don't ask me why :) i didn't do that release
[02:58] <fabbione> so you can just grab the .10 sources from the archive
[02:58] <fabbione> and you will get all of them
[02:58] <fabbione> in any case the ht is important
[02:58] <BenC> ok, I'll take care of that today for 2.6.12
[02:58] <fabbione> perfect
[02:59] <fabbione> BenC: you probably recall that hw bug in p4 + ht processors
[02:59] <fabbione> when i started .12 i did purge that patch, because i was pretty sure upstream did fix it
[02:59] <fabbione> yesterday it did pop to my mind to check it again
[03:29] <BenC> fabbione: that ht patch is really security related?
[03:29] <BenC> maybe I'm looking at the wrong patch
[03:30] <BenC> ht.dpatch, security related, ok
[03:30] <BenC> is ht insecure?
[03:30] <Mithrandir> BenC: it appears so, yes.  You can get leakage of data from one process to another.
[03:31] <BenC> there's no workaround for it other than disabling it?
[03:36] <Mithrandir> I think it's a hardware problem, so no
[03:50] <BenC> fabbione? 
[04:31] <dilinger> BenC, fabbione: so, now that i've finally got an internet connection, i'm going to set up the sunfire and offer debian/ubuntu to use it as a buildd
[04:31] <dilinger> BenC: this is the machine that has the silo-booting-from-iso9660 problem, btw
[04:32] <dilinger> BenC: so if you get bored and feel like figuring out what's up w/ it, i can hook up a serial console and let you play
[04:40] <BenC> dilinger: I'd be interested
[04:40] <BenC> if I ever find time
[04:41] <BenC> that UltraIII boot from cd problem has been haunting me for awhile
[04:41] <dilinger> i'll set it up over the weekend
[04:41] <BenC> mainly because I don't have the hw to reproduce it :)
[04:42] <BenC> does that system have LOM?
[04:42] <dilinger> yea, i remember you saying that, which is why i offered
[04:42] <dilinger> i believe so, although i've not played w/ it
[04:43] <BenC> if you can set that up (telnet or serial) that would be best
[04:43] <BenC> I'm sure I'm going to need a lot of hard power cycles, and I don't want to bug you every 10 minutes :)
[04:44] <dilinger> i assume you'll need me to burn cds anyways
[04:44] <BenC> ah, true, didn't think about that
[04:45] <BenC> does the box have a cd burner in it?
[04:45] <BenC> then I could boot to the system and do my own
[04:45] <dilinger> no, but the box that's hooked up to its serial does
[04:45] <BenC> doesn't get around the need for you to be at my beck and call though
[04:45] <dilinger> i figured i'd just give you an account on there, w/ access to serial and the burner
[04:46] <BenC> can you put a cdr capable drive in it? just IDE for the cd, right?
[04:46] <dilinger> true, but it's in my apt, so it won't be a problem
[04:46] <dilinger> i believe it's ide
[04:46] <BenC> I work weird hours when I do off-time stuff though
[05:00] <jbailey> Reminds me that I should ask the grub sparc guy how it's going.  He had module and kernel loading working, but I don't think he actually had it booting the kernel.
[05:01] <jbailey> But he did have it coming up and loading the grub filesystem modules and such.
[05:01] <dilinger> hm
[05:02] <BenC> jbailey: wow, that'd be a nice improvement
[05:02] <dilinger> BenC: what do you suppose would happen if you attempted to boot off an iso9660 image that wasn't on a cdrom?
[05:02] <BenC> dilinger: not sure that's possible
[05:02] <BenC> openboot has to think it's a cdrom
[05:03] <BenC> and first-isofs.b has to actually be on a cdrom
[05:03] <dilinger> ok
[05:03] <BenC> well, it atleast assumes such things when using firmware calls