Marcus Furlong wrote: > On 29 July 2015 at 11:41, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Using a newer kernel is out of question here - I have to use the latest >> "Enterprise Linux" (CentOS 7) without patches. > Does that include using kernels from other CentOS repos? > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > The elrepo repository listed above has a mainline kernel that follows > upstream stable releases, so no need for patching. I wonder how safe it is to use these kernels, and whether it breaks the userland. >From the policy view, it somehow defeats the purpose of choosing an Enterprise Linux (with well-tested software in their own "kernel/userland universe") and then throwing out crucial parts of it. I could put a FreeBSD kernel underneath then, it has a Linux kernel ABI, and start deploying CentOS jails on ZFS;-) https://wiki.freebsd.org/VIMAGE/Linux/CentOS55 I don't think I get away with this either;-) Thanks Peter On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Marcus Furlong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 July 2015 at 11:41, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Using a newer kernel is out of question here - I have to use the latest > > "Enterprise Linux" (CentOS 7) without patches. > > Does that include using kernels from other CentOS repos? > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > > The elrepo repository listed above has a mainline kernel that follows > upstream stable releases, so no need for patching. > > > In case anyone is interested, openSUSE also has the same type of > stable kernel repo here: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ > > and the Ubuntu has it's mainline kernel ppa: > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ > > Regards, > Marcus. > -- > Marcus Furlong >
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