RE: Meltdown and Spectre - Additional PTFs released

If HMC managed, the firmware updates can be applied concurrently, no IPL needed, non-pervasive.
However, all the MF PTFs are requiring an IPL.
Long story short, IPL will be needed.

The IBM i PTFs listed in this Security Bulletin can be loaded and applied independently of the Power FW fixes that have been created to address the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Both the IBM i and Power Firmware fixes are required to mitigate the vulnerabilities. If the IBM i PTFs are applied before the Power Firmware fixes, then mitigations for the IBM i LPAR may not become effective until Power Firmware fixes are applied and an Initial Program Load (IPL) or Live Partition Mobility (LPM) operation for the IBM i LPAR is completed.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Dietz
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 9:05 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Meltdown and Spectre - Additional PTFs released

More PTFs released:

7.3:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/search.wss?tc=SG16H&sortby=desc



same for other versions:
looks here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021943

not updated as of this morning(maybe soon):
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022433

Bryan


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