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

[Adam Brenner]

Hi Alan,

Yes, that would be wonderful! We truly would appreciate that.

-Adam

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Adam Brenner
Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

System Administrator, HPC Cluster
Office of Information Technology
http://hpc.oit.uci.edu/

University of California, Irvine
www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
aebrenne at uci.edu


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 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
>> http://hpc.oit.uci.edu/
>>
>> University of California, Irvine
>> www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
>> 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.
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