Hi,
How do I enable SMT and SMP for my Intel Processor server?
I have latest BIOS updated, does that mean I am immunity to Meltdown and Spectre and safe to enable SMT?
I need both of my processors to be working, I need SMP to be enabled.
Thank you!
For undoing the settings configured by Kicksecure, see Disable CPU Mitigations.
I have latest BIOS updated, does that mean I am immunity to Meltdown and Spectre and safe to enable SMT?
No, not necessarily. It often requires new hardware.
This issue is mostly unspecific to Kicksecure. (Except for the CPU mitigations kernel settings configured by default by security-misc in Kicksecure, which I shared a link above on how to disable these.)
Check out spectre-meltdown-checker. Note it has known bugs, might have unknown bugs. For additional support, upstream spectre-meltdown-checker and/or Linux kernel are much more suitable than this forum. As per: Self Support First Policy for Kicksecure