[elrepo] Kernel required for latest kmod

[aaronhcarr at gmail.com]

It helps.

I'm trying to stay on RHEL 7.5 (because OpenHPC for RHEL 7.6 was very
broken).

So right now I'm going to try just upgrading the kernel in order to get the
kmod driver loaded.

Hopefully that, and rebuilding the Mellanox OFED for this combo will be the
worst of it.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:42 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 03/04/2019 05:21, aaronhcarr at gmail.com wrote:
> > What's the kernel version required for kmod-nvidia.x86_64
> >          418.56-1.el7_6.elrepo?
> >
> > I saw that when doing a CentOS 7.5 installation, that default kernel was
> > not new enough.
> >
>
> Correct. The latest kmod-nvidia package requires a kernel from el7.6
> (e.g, 3.10.0-957.el7 or above).
>
> This is reflected in the package release string (.el7_6.elrepo).
>
> Red Hat typically updates their kernel ABI at each point release which
> tends to break backward compatibility with the nvidia driver. Typically,
> the nvidia driver is only compatible within a single point release
> series (e.g, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 etc) and needs to be rebuilt for each new
> point release.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Phil
>
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