Hi guys,
As mentioned in the other thread about new kernel (basically to fix the dccp cve issue), I had a look at the 4.4.x branch, but thought also about a rebase to 4.9.x (also upstream LTS at kernel.org)
For AltArch (centos 7 i386), Johnny built a 4.9.13 kernel and so I reused it for armhfp It also makes sense to rebase to 4.9.x for rpi2/rpi3 as the rpi foundation also rebased to 4.9 and so confirmed to me that they don't maintain 4.4.x (even if they still accept Pull Requests).
So we have now 4.9.13 available for both rpi and generic.
The following /etc/yum.repos.d/testing-kernel.repo would do it :
[kernel-testing] name=CentOS Kernels for armhfp testing baseurl=https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/$basearch/kernel-$kvariant/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=0
[firmware] name=firmware baseurl=https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/linux-firmware-20170213/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
After that a simple yum update --enablerepo=kernel-testing would bring it to the node
For rpi, nothing to be done For the other boards, I've added an update-boot tool to automatically modify extlinux.conf. but you need the updated centos-userland-release pkg : https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c71611-updates-1/centos-userland-releas...
Worth noting that the actual 4.9.13 will *not* call it in the %post rpm transaction (yet) but if that tool works for everybody, we'll add it for newer kernels.
Any feedback is welcome, but for the kernel I'd like to push that asap to signing/release (so the more feedback, the faster we'll have it released) ;-)
Cheers,