[elrepo] RHEL6, Linux-4.19 & Kernel-ml: A Kernel Too Far.

[Alan Bartlett]

Those of us who follow proceedings upstream at kernel.org will know
that the minimum version of GCC required to build a kernel was updated
from 3.2 to 4.6, as of linux-4.19.

As GCC version 4.4.7 is shipped with RHEL6 it means that kernel-ml,
using the latest released sources from Linus Torvalds, can no longer
be built.

After a discussion, within the ELRepo Project, it has been decided
that as RHEL6 will reach end of life in 25 months time it is
appropriate to declare the kernel-ml-4.19.0-1.el6.elrepo package set
as a "kernel too far". Whilst the linux-4.18.X branch is still being
supported, we shall continue to build and provide the
kernel-ml-4.18.X-1.el6.elrepo package sets. Once the linux-4.18.X
branch has been declared at EOL, any user of the
kernel-ml-4.18.X-1.el6.elrepo package set should either revert to the
kernel-lt-4.4.Y-1.el6.elrepo package set or migrate to RHEL7.

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.