[elrepo] elrepo Digest, Vol 130, Issue 12
Danie de Jager
danie.dejager at striata.com
Tue Apr 21 12:43:08 EDT 2020
Hi Alan,
So the ENA drivers are built into the kernel package and do not need a
separate Kmod? That's good news.
Thanks,
Danie de Jager
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:51:02 +0200
> From: Danie de Jager <danie.dejager at striata.com>
> To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> Subject: [elrepo] kmod-ena drivers for elrepo kernels
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> Hi,
>
> I have some servers depending on kmod-ena which depends on the
> original kernel for Centos 7 to be installed (although I'm not booting
> them anymore as I've switched to Elrepo kernels on some of my systems).
> I wanted to remove the Centos original kernels but I'll break the network
>
> yum remove kernel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-devel-3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64
> Removing:
> kernel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7 @updates
> 64 M
> kernel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 @updates
> 64 M
> kernel-devel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 @updates
> 38 M
> Removing for dependencies:
> kmod-ena x86_64 2.1.0-1.el7.11
> @/kmod-ena-2.1.0-1.el7.11.x86_64
> Installed Package
> Name : kmod-ena
> Arch : x86_64
> Version : 2.1.0
> Release : 1.el7.11
> Size : 209 k
> Repo : installed
> >From repo : /kmod-ena-2.1.0-1.el7.11.x86_64
> Summary : ena kernel module(s)
> URL : https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers
> License : GPLv2
> Description : This package provides the ena kernel modules built for
> : the Linux kernel 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 for the
> x86_64
> : family of processors.
>
> What would be the ideal config going forward? Should these drivers not
> be built for the ELrepo kernels too?
>
> Regards,
> Danie de Jager
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> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:25 +0100
> From: Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>
> To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> Subject: Re: [elrepo] kmod-ena drivers for elrepo kernels
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> On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 20:51, Danie de Jager via elrepo
> <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some servers depending on kmod-ena which depends on the
> > original kernel for Centos 7 to be installed (although I'm not booting
> > them anymore as I've switched to Elrepo kernels on some of my systems).
> > I wanted to remove the Centos original kernels but I'll break the network
> >
> > yum remove kernel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 kernel-devel-3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64
> > Removing:
> > kernel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7 @updates 64 M
> > kernel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 @updates 64 M
> > kernel-devel x86_64 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 @updates 38 M
> > Removing for dependencies:
> > kmod-ena x86_64 2.1.0-1.el7.11 @/kmod-ena-2.1.0-1.el7.11.x86_64
> > Installed Package
> > Name : kmod-ena
> > Arch : x86_64
> > Version : 2.1.0
> > Release : 1.el7.11
> > Size : 209 k
> > Repo : installed
> > From repo : /kmod-ena-2.1.0-1.el7.11.x86_64
> > Summary : ena kernel module(s)
> > URL : https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers
> > License : GPLv2
> > Description : This package provides the ena kernel modules built for
> > : the Linux kernel 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 for the x86_64
> > : family of processors.
> >
> > What would be the ideal config going forward? Should these drivers not
> > be built for the ELrepo kernels too?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Danie de Jager
>
> Hi Danie,
>
> I've just checked in the master configuration files for the ELRepo
> kernel-ml packages and find that ENA_ETHERNET is enabled for both el7
> & el8.
>
> el7/config-5.6/config-5.6.5-x86_64:CONFIG_ENA_ETHERNET=m
> el7/config-5.7/config-5.7.0-x86_64:CONFIG_ENA_ETHERNET=m
>
> el8/config-5.6/config-5.6.5-x86_64:CONFIG_ENA_ETHERNET=m
> el8/config-5.7/config-5.7.0-x86_64:CONFIG_ENA_ETHERNET=m
>
> Alan.
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