[elrepo] CentOS/Kernel 3.18/Thunderbolt2

[Alan Bartlett]

On 26 January 2015 at 01:25, israel <israel at ravnalaska.net> wrote:
> I just got a new SuperMicro box with a AOC-TBT-DSL5320 Thunderbolt2 card
> pre-installed. I installed CentOS 6.5, ran yum update, and then, because to
> my understanding at least, thunderbolt support was added in kernel 3.10, I
> went ahead and updated to kernel 3.18 from ELRepo. This all appeared to work
> fine, and my system came back up running kernel 3.18 as expected, but when I
> plugged in a thunderbolt hard drive there was no indication that CentOS
> recognized the drive - even after a re-boot. Am I missing something, such as
> needing to install a special driver for this thunderbolt card, or the drive
> being identified differently than sd? Or does Linux/CentOS simply not
> support Thunderbolt2? Thanks.

Am I correct in assuming that the Thunderbolt2 card is a PCI bus
device? If so, what are the relevant lines that are output by a lspci
-nn command?

Alan.