[20:15] <Kon-> Can anyone here help explain this, and what impact it might have on desktop users? https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
[20:24] <dax> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/741878/eb6c9d3913d7cb2b/ has more info on the KPTI patch. There's a lot of speculation right now that it has security impact, but not a whole lot of actual firm facts. Once everything's sorted out upstream, if it has security impact (and thus a CVE), I'd expect Ubuntu to get involved at that point and issue updates.
[20:25] <dax> for right now, public discussion is pretty much just "wait and see" as far as I know
[22:39] <tsimonq2> Hello :)
[22:40] <tsimonq2> I'm having trouble finding information about when 4.14.0-13.15 is due to migrate to bionic, I see there's a block-proposed bug but I can't find where the workflow is documented (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/kernel-sru-workflow doesn't seem to have info about it, correct me if I'm wrong)
[22:42] <bjf> tsimonq2, we didn't want to promote 4.14 to -release while everyone was on vacation
[22:42] <tsimonq2> bjf: Oh, right :)
[22:42] <tsimonq2> That's fair.
[22:43] <bjf> tsimonq2, it should be happening "real soon now" though since most of us are back
[22:44] <tsimonq2> I only ask because it seems that disables CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM, and I want to do Alpha 1 next week, but I want to make sure nobody's affected by that bug that isn't already, if I can help it...
[22:44] <tsimonq2> bjf: Sure, I'll stick around here.
[22:49] <tsimonq2> (Please do let me know if there's anything I can do to help, though.)
[22:51] <bjf> tsimonq2, if you want you can test the -proposed kernel with is 4.14
[22:53] <tsimonq2> bjf: Sure.
[23:03] <tsimonq2> bjf: Seems to work fine here, anything in specific you'd like me to test?
[23:09] <dax> is the plan for bionic to release with 4.14 or 4.15?
[23:10] <tsimonq2> (4.14 seems logical because it's an LTS kernel (iirc?) but I'm not on the Kernel Team)
[23:10] <bjf> dax, the plan for now is 4.15
[23:11] <dax> bjf: thanks, that's what i read a few months ago, good to hear it's still the plan
[23:12] <tsimonq2> Oh, TIL, was unsure, cool :)
[23:13] <dax> for whatever it's worth (probably not much), 4.15 from the mainline ppa has been fine for me so far on bionic, i grabbed it because of amdgpu DC