[elrepo] 3.10 Kernel build for Linux el6

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/13/2015 04:34 PM, Duke Pham via elrepo wrote:
>>
>> On some linux websites, I see the support for mismatched version
>> combinations between EL kernel and EL Linux version. For example: el7
>> Kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 runs on el6 RHEL6u7
>>
>> Does anyone know how this can be done? Does it mean that I have to get
>> the source code of el7 Kernel 3.10.0-123.el7 and build on the machine
>> with el6 Linux Version? Is there any prebuilt package somewhere? The
>> reason is that elrepo el6 kernel 3.10 doesn't have the latest device
>> drivers, thus I have to get the distro kernel from Centos. However,
>> since Centos 6 linux version doesn't support 3.10 kernel, then I have to
>> look into el7 Kernel 3.10. So basically, I look into install the el7
>> Kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 on el6 REHL6u7.
>
> Have you looked at the 3.18 kernel in the Xen4CentOS repo?
>   https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart
>
> The current version there is 3.18.17-13.el6.x86_64, built for
> CentOS 6, and is straightforward to install.

The OP asked about kernel-lt 3.18 and was invited to test
kernel-lt-3.18.22-1.el6.elrepo. More details are found here:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2015-October/002782.html

Akemi