[OE-core] Yocto Project, Spectre and Meltdown

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

Hi RP,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Purdie
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:36 AM
> To: openembedded-core <openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Yocto Project, Spectre and Meltdown
> 
> On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 11:38 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > I just wanted to give people an update on where the project stands
> > with these issues.
> 
> Master now contains gcc and kernel fixes (in linux-yocto). meta-yocto- bsp updates
> are still pending.
> 
> rocko-next also has those fixes and is undergoing testing which if it passes, will get
> pushed to rocko.
> 

I see that rocko-next branch is upgrading the GCC version to 7.3 from 7.2 , is there a reason to do so?
I was under the impression that we would backport the security fixes to 7.2 version.

Thanks,
Manju