[elrepo] kmod-pata_via

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 9:04 AM Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com>
wrote:

> On 14/01/2022 16:34, chuck elliot wrote:
> > I'm using this elrepo module with Centos 8.5 Stream.
> >
> > The latest kernel update 4.18.0-358.el8.x86_64 did not
> >
> > include the weak-updates link for pata_via so I created one.
> >
> > However, the system would not boot this kernel - the local
> >
> > file system not being available.
> >
> > Anybody else having similar problems?
>
> Yes, everyone that uses Stream 8 will be in the same boat as ELRepo do
> not support Stream. They provide their kmod packages to work with RHEL
> and the released RJEL kernels only. Stream tracks the NEXT point release
> of RHEL so it's already got what will become the 8.6 kernel that doesn't
> exist for RHEL 8 yet.
>
> If you want to use ELRepo kmods then you need to use a RHEL rebuild like
> Rocky/Alma/OEL or RHEL itself. Stream is unsupported.
>
> Trevor (not an ELRepo person)
>

You have two options here. One is to install a regular (non-stream) CentOS
kernel which is available in the CentOS Stream repository. The other is to
ask the CentOS kmods Sig [1] to provide the kmod package for Stream.

Akemi

[1] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Kmods
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