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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:16:49 -0500
From:   tedheadster <tedheadster@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>,
        Eduardo Valentin <eduval@...zon.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What was last kernel that booted on hardware XY? database was Re:
 [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2A

>
> BTW... I'd really like to have a database of machine, kernel version,
> cpuinfo, config... So that questions like "what is the latest kernel
> that is known to be running on this hardware" and "what config should
> I start from".
>
> For example, I have nokia N810 here. It was supported by Linux at some
> point, but then we moved to dts, and stuff changed, and I can no
> longer figure how to boot it.
>
> I guess "what was last kernel that worked on Cyrix MII" is also
> relevant question.
>
> Is there such database? If not, would people be interested in
> contributing if I create one?
>

I am interested and will help. I have i486/i586/Pentium Pro/Pentium
II/Pentium II Xeon/Pentium 4 systems to test on. Oddly, I don't yet
have Pentium III systems.

I think an associated goal would be to fix those broken versions.

I think this is a great project for college students to get experience
with. Who else is interested?

- Matthew Whitehead