Check a non-running kernel

spectre-meltdown-checker

  • Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool.
    More information: <https://manned.org/spectre-meltdown-checker>.
  • Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

sudo spectre-meltdown-checker --kernel {{path/to/kernel_file}}

click the source code to copy install spectre-meltdown-checker on any operating system with command-not-found.com