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I usually lurk here on the list but I have to chime in on this one.
After reading Redhat's removal of some very important drivers from
their stock kernel (such as the e1000, etc), it really bothers me
where this is going. I can appreciate that Redhat aka.. IBM might
not do hardware regression testing on all of those modules within
their kernel but I bet they don't do regression testing on a lot of
other modules as well. Why not leave the support in there but
declare there isn't any support for them? Once upon a time, Linux
was all about running a competent OS on sorts of new *AND* old
hardware and in this example, this Dell T310 server was released in
2010. Yes, it's a 10yr old server but does that make it worthless?
I don't think so.<br>
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Changes like this really hurts Redhat but thankfully we have the
EPEL and ElRepo teams to help short up Redhat's gaps.<br>
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--David<br>
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<pre wrap="">I forgot to mention one other link, that of a recent posting to the
ELRepo blog on the subject of "RHEL 8.0 and support for removed
adapters" --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html">https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html</a>
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