Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > is somebody on this list running OpenVZ legacy kernel 2.6.32 on Intel > Skylake CPUs? > > As far as I know kernel 2.6.32 has EOL end of February, does this > influence OpenVZ?
The upstream 2.6.32 will be EOL'ed but OpenVZ Legacy uses RHEL's 2.6.32 kernel that has a large number of patches provided by Red Hat with additional features and drivers backported from a number of newer kernels. Red Hat provides a refresh every 6 months with their minor version releases (currently on RHEL 6.7 with 6.8 coming out RSN). Here's the RHEL6 history thus far: 6.1 - 19 May 2011 (kernel 2.6.32-131) 6.2 - 6 December 2011 (kernel 2.6.32-220) 6.3 - 20 June 2012 (kernel 2.6.32-279) 6.4 - 21 February 2013 (kernel 2.6.32-358) 6.5 - 21 November 2013 (kernel 2.6.32-431) 6.6 - 13 October 2014 (kernel 2.6.32-504) 6.7 - 22 July 2015 (kernel 2.6.32-573) The end of "Production Phase 3" is 30 November 2020. For an explanation of the RHEL lifecycle, see: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ I assume OpenVZ Legacy will be supported until Red Hat ends support... or at least that is what they did with their RHEL4-based (2.6.9) kernel... and continue to do with their RHEL5-based (2.6.18) kernel. Regarding Skylake, I really don't know. According to this post, initial support was added to the Linux kernel with the release of 3.18 or later: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc4NDc Here's a list of supported CPUs by Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/intel Here's a list of Skylake server CPU model numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarchitecture%29#Server_Processors I'm fairly ignorant of the specifics but eyeballing those two it appears RHEL 6.7 supports all E3-12XX V5 CPUs. Does that answer the questions you had? TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users