Hi Jim,
Would it be possible, that you take a look at my questions form the previous email?
Thanks in advance, Marcin
śr., 1 sie 2018 o 17:11 Marcin Wojtas mw@semihalf.com napisał(a):
Hi Jim,
wt., 31 lip 2018 o 18:09 Jim Perrin jperrin@centos.org napisał(a):
On 07/30/2018 07:00 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
Hi Jim,
It's been a while, since I sent the patch. Any objections about merging?
Is v4.11 kernel still a valid baseline or for the next releases or we should use v4.14? When is that transition and next release supposed to happen?
The current version of the supported kernel is 4.14, so this would need to be updated to support the 4.14 tree.
There is still a gap between vanilla v4.14 version of the driver and the upstream commits that allow to use it with ACPI (although much smaller than for v4.11). What is a procedure of providing you the patches?
Best regards, Marcinsob., 23 cze 2018 o 08:18 Marcin Wojtas mw@semihalf.com napisał(a):
Hi,
I'm sending a patch that is applicable on top of the kernel sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch. It enables ACPI support for the Marvell Armada7k8k NIC - this required backporting very big amount of patches (all merged upstream), hence I decided to attach the single commit, instead of issueing 'git send-email' of it.
Once we got to 4.14, there didn't seem to be a demand for the sig-altarch kernel to continue so I left it at the previous version. From the sounds of things, you still need it for this to work?
Is v4.14-based Centos an official version to support aarch64? If yes, I'd complement this version with the needed patches.
Btw. if I google 'Centos aarch64' the links point to the altarch/7 images. What is their kernel base then? In other words, where should one search for most recent image of aarch64 images? Is there any public release schedule available?
About sig-altarch tree, I'd need to make sure internally. From your perspective, would it be recommended?
Despite many attempts I wasn't able to build entire rpm package with the mock build utility, however I managed to test the clean kernel v4.11 with applied all patches and built with updated .config. Please let know if this patch is sufficient and can be merged.
I'm guessing no unless it patches/builds against 4.14 as well. I'll see about updating the sig-altarch tree so that we can test there.
For sure I need to send updated patch list for v4.14. Please see my question above.
Thanks, Marcin