CentOS - Dec 2007 - Chipset support for 6750 Intel CPUs

Howdy,

We've noticed that the new chipsets required for the **50 series of intel
processors is not supported in CentOS 5.

We've tried the DG31 board which (realtek nic unsupported) DG33 no support
for disk controller or NICs.  We also tried the dx38bt and there was no support.

Fedora 8 apparently works great with all of the boards we tried. My question is,
will there these boards not be supported via the installer until CentOS 6?

I realize that the driver support comes from upstream, but it would be cool if
they made a easy way to use a newer/updated kernel in the installer.

Thanks,
-Drew

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 at 11:04pm, Drew Weaver wrote
> We've noticed that the new chipsets required for the **50 series of 
> intel processors is not supported in CentOS 5.
>
> We've tried the DG31 board which (realtek nic unsupported) DG33 no 
> support for disk controller or NICs.  We also tried the dx38bt and there 
> was no support.
>
> Fedora 8 apparently works great with all of the boards we tried. My 
> question is, will there these boards not be supported via the installer 
> until CentOS 6?
>
> I realize that the driver support comes from upstream, but it would be 
> cool if they made a easy way to use a newer/updated kernel in the 
> installer.
Each point release gets support for new hardware (backported from later 
kernel.org kernels).  If 5.1 doesn't support those chipsets, then 5.2 
likely will.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF