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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Dave. What do you think about trying kernel-ml on CentOS 6? We’re trying to do a direct swap of Intel for AMD without disrupting the existing systems (CentOS 6/kernel-lt el6 running KVM). Hoping to keep changes down to just reconfiguring networking.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nick </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> elrepo-bounces@lists.elrepo.org <elrepo-bounces@lists.elrepo.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Chiluk via elrepo<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 16, 2018 10:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo@lists.elrepo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [elrepo] AMD EPYC Support<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>As hardware support is accomplished primarily through the kernel, and you've likely replaced it with an elrepo kernel the Redhat documentation would not apply. Additionally since Epyc is such a new processor you might have better luck running the kernel-ml instead of the kernel-lt as large driver backports are typically not accepted according to the linux-stable rules.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If I were you and intent on running an Epyc machine I'd move up to cent 7 + the kernel-ml, or move to Ubuntu Bionic which has a 4.15 kernel where they may have attempted to backport some of the Epyc enablement.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck,<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dave.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:15 PM <<a href="mailto:nick@ramnode.com">nick@ramnode.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Has anyone tried running kernel-lt 4.4 (el6) on AMD EPYC processors? RedHat documentation seems to indicate that RHEL/CentOS 6 is not supported on the EPYC lineup, but AMD’s documentation is unclear.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nick</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>elrepo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" target="_blank">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo" target="_blank">http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>