On 02/08/17 16:18, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 08/02/2017 09:55 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 07/27/2017 04:16 PM, wwp wrote:
...
It is as simple as unknown hardware at boot up, it's a well known issue
w/ *Lake hardware (modern hardware) that kernel 3.x cannot handle.
CentOS7 has a kernel which is simply not modern, unable to handle lots
of computers sold currently.
That said, there might be a way to boot, but nothing trivial and
nothing at all I could find on the Internet, everytime it's kernel
4.3/4.10 minimum required.
...
While I know that Johnny has provided the experimental kernel (thanks,
Johnny) I would like to just briefly address this idea that the C7
kernel is 'obviously' not going to work because 'is 3.x and must have 4.x.'
In EL-land, kernel versions are effectively meaningless, since features,
hardware support, bugfixes, security fixes, etc are back-ported into the
'old and not modern' 3.10 kernel (for EL7) by competent developers at
Red Hat. An EL 3.10 kernel, such as the current
3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 one, may have hardware support back-ported
from a 4.x kernel that doesn't exist in the vanilla kernel.org kernel
(I'm almost certain it does, but I'm not going to take the time to get
details).
It might work in the RHEL 7.4 kernel .. I'll get that onto buildlogs for
testing while I am working on the CentOS Linux 7 upgrade builds.
And yes, people do need to understand that Red Hat backports newer
firmware and drivers to the older kernels. There are plenty of 4.x
kernel things backported. So, as you correctly pointed out, you can't
treat the Red Hat 3.10.x kernels like kernel.org 3.10.x kernels.
<snip>
Indeed, Lamar and Johnny are correct. For example, the wireless driver
stack from kernel-4.11 has just showed up in the RHEL-7.4 kernel
released yesterday.
Further, I would encourage anyone to file RFEs upstream with Red Hat for
support to be added for any currently unsupported hardware. If Red Hat
don't know you want support for it, it won't get added. If you don't
ask, you won't get.
Whilst you are waiting on Red Hat to backport support into the distro
kernel, don't forget elrepo.org also specialise in backporting
individual device drivers which can provide an invaluable stopgap
allowing the distro kernel to continue to be used until such time as the
hardware is natively supported. For example, I recently built an updated
i2c-i801 el7 driver adding backported support from kernel-4.4 for
Braswell and Wildcat Point ICH's following an RFE from a user.
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