[elrepo-devel] elrepo-kernel Kernel 3.2 LTS Support

[Alan Bartlett]

On 16 April 2014 18:57, Adam Brenner <aebrenne at uci.edu> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> For our HPC cluster, we would like to get away from the 2.6.x kernel
> and move to a kernel in the 3.x line. We like the elrepo community and
> the wide number of packages and drivers you support.
>
> For a number of reasons, we can not use the kernel-lt repo which has
> linux kernel 3.10. Our checkpointing software[1] does not support
> kernel version 3.7 or higher. In addition, our mellanox drivers for
> infiniband only support 2.6.x kernel as well as 3.2.
>
> Would it be possible for the kernel-lt project to support Linux Kernel
> 3.2? According to the kernel.org page[2] it does show it as a LT
> kernel being updated till 2016.
>
> I am willing to assist with this project, if needed. If this is something not
> feasible within the elrepo kernel repo, would if the elrepo kernel team would
> share their complication process with us?
>
> Thanks!
> -Adam
>
>
> [1]: http://crd.lbl.gov/groups-depts/ftg/projects/current-projects/BLCR
> [2]: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
>
> --
> Adam Brenner
> Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
> Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
>
> System Administrator, HPC Cluster
> Office of Information Technology
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>
> University of California, Irvine
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> aebrenne at uci.edu
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Hi Adam,

We have had similar requests in the past. The last request, I recall,
was sent directly to my personal e-mail address. However the ELRepo
Project has made the decision to carry just one kernel-lt package set
and one kernel-ml package set for EL6, along with one kernel-lt
package set for EL5.

I can fully understand your situation and appreciate your desire for a
kernel-lt-3.2.X-1.el6 package set. Although we will not be able to
regularly build and provide such a package set, I could -- if you are
interested -- extract the last kernel-ml-3.2.X-1.el6.elrepo SRPM from
our private archive, convert it from kernel-ml to kernel-lt and update
the configuration to be appropriate for the current linunx-3.2.X
source tarball that is available from the Linux Kernel Archives. I'm
also sure that I could perform the initial build of the package set
for you . . . before handing it over, for you to privately maintain as
an in-house package set.

Please let me know if that would be of interest to you.

Regards,
Alan.