[elrepo] EL6 updated i915 driver for Intel Xeon E-2124G 8086:3e96

[Phil Perry]

On 22/11/2019 09:48, Alastair Murray wrote:
> Good morning, (or wherever you are)
> 
> Is the updated i915 driver for Intel Xeon E2124G 8086:3e96 scheduled for 
> inclusion in the EL6 kernel-lt?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alastair Murray.
> 

Hi Alastair,

The kernel-lt package for el6 is simply a convenient packaging of the 
upstream LTS kernel from kernel.org for RHEL/CentOS. Elrepo do not 
modify or otherwise change the upstream sources in any way.

So the simple answer is you'd have to ask upstream. In reality, I very 
much doubt the upstream kernel developers are providing anything more 
that critical bug fixes to a kernel that is nearly 4 years old now.

If you need newer (or updated) hardware support, you are almost 
certainly going to require a newer kernel.

Does the el6 distribution kernel not provide support as Red Hat will 
often backport support for newer hardware into the distribution kernel? 
You may find the el6 distribution kernel actually contains better 
hardware support than the now aging kernel-lt offering.

Phil