Lamar Owen
2020-Dec-10 02:07 UTC
[CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:> While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we can do. >So, I want to address this part a bit.? In MANY cases, it's not a third-party driver that ELrepo packages; it's an in-kernel driver that Red Hat has decided to disable.? Such as the megaraid_sas driver I need for my servers.
Akemi Yagi
2020-Dec-10 02:37 UTC
[CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:> > On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > > drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we can do. > > > So, I want to address this part a bit. In MANY cases, it's not a > third-party driver that ELrepo packages; it's an in-kernel driver that > Red Hat has decided to disable. Such as the megaraid_sas driver I need > for my servers.And just to give you some more examples -- ELRepo offers DUD (driver update disk) images for the devices whose support has been dropped in RHEL 8: https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/ Akemi
Brendan Conoboy
2020-Dec-10 03:55 UTC
[CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:> On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > > drivers work with CentOS Stream kernels. Let's see what we can do. > > > So, I want to address this part a bit. In MANY cases, it's not a > third-party driver that ELrepo packages; it's an in-kernel driver that > Red Hat has decided to disable. Such as the megaraid_sas driver I need > for my servers. >Ah yes, that's a great call-out. I'm not sure what the plan is there (or if there is one), but to me it seems like the sort of thing a SIG would build. -- Brendan Conoboy / Linux Project Lead / Red Hat, Inc.