"Fix: The issue was fixed in kernel version 4.13.0-21 by configuring the kernel so it is not compiled with Intel SPI support."
Looking on Launchpad for the linux source package (try !upkg linux in DuckDuckGo), you can see 4.13.0-21.24 is in security for artful. Looking at its [info page][1] one finds a changelog entry:
You can look at the manifest for the kernel:
$ wget --quiet -O - http:// cdimage. ubuntu. com/artful/ daily-live/ 20180105. 1/artful- desktop- amd64.manifest | grep ^linux- | grep -E 'image| headers| generic| signed' 4.13.0- 21 4.13.0-21.24 4.13.0- 21-generic 4.13.0-21.24 generic 4.13.0.21.22 4.13.0- 21-generic 4.13.0-21.24 extra-4. 13.0-21- generic 4.13.0-21.24 generic 4.13.0.21.22 image-4. 13.0-21- generic 4.13.0-21.24 image-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-headers-
linux-headers-
linux-headers-
linux-image-
linux-image-
linux-image-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-signed-
linux-signed-
linux-signed-
If you read the description above, you find:
"Fix: The issue was fixed in kernel version 4.13.0-21 by configuring the kernel so it is not compiled with Intel SPI support."
Looking on Launchpad for the linux source package (try !upkg linux in DuckDuckGo), you can see 4.13.0-21.24 is in security for artful. Looking at its [info page][1] one finds a changelog entry:
" * Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models (LP: #1734147) SPI_INTEL_ SPI_PLATFORM= n"
- [Config] CONFIG_
That being said, this kernel does NOT load the SPI drivers at all and will not suffer from this bug.
Do note that linux-*-generic packages are from a different source package (linux-meta) and as such has a slightly different version number.
[1]: https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/4. 13.0-21. 24