On 11/23/2017 06:31 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote:

On 23 November 2017 at 23:48, Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org mailto:johnny@centos.org> wrote:

On 11/23/2017 07:22 AM, Zhou Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am afraid in the right place to ask this question.
>
> Redhat7.4 for ARM64 already released: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541
<https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541>
> Before this, CentOS7.4 for ARM64 released: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64
<https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64>
> As CentOS7.4 just took one internal version of Redhat7.4 as its release version, we should at least backport
> patches after above Redhat7.4 internal version to CentOS7.4.
>
> My question is that is there a plan to backport these patches to CentOS7.4? Or where can I find such plan/schedule?
>

CentOS 7.4.1708 is out current release, it is based on the source code
from RHEL 7.4.

I assume CentOS 7.4.1708 is a version released in August, and the kernel version is 4.2 based kernel-aarch64 as mentioned in the wiki page. But RHEL 7.4 for ARM64 was released in Nov, and kernel version is 4.11. So I think there should be some additional effort to keep CentOS 7.4 update to date with RHEL 7.4 for ARM64. Am I right?

You mean the kernel-4.11.0-22.el7.3.aarch64.rpm that is in our updates directory and was build on 10/28/2017?

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.4.1708/updates/aarch64/Packages/

On 11/23/2017 07:08 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote:

I don't know the exact patch version for kernel package of the final RHEL 7.4 release for ARM. But shouldn't it be something like kernel-xxx.el7.4.aarch64.rpm instead of kernel-xxx.el7.3.aarch64.rpm?

So the way rpms get named/numbered gets a little confusing, but the short answer is 'no'. If it were a kernel for 7.4 specifically, it would be tagged as el7_4, not el7.4. This is dist tag vs release version rpm detailing that's typically not that important for anyone other than packagers.

On 11/27/2017 05:02 AM, Zhou Wang wrote:

On 2017/11/23 21:22, Zhou Wang wrote:

...

Hi,

I am afraid in the right place to ask this question.

Redhat7.4 for ARM64 already released: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541 Before this, CentOS7.4 for ARM64 released: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64 As CentOS7.4 just took one internal version of Redhat7.4 as its release version, we should at least backport patches after above Redhat7.4 internal version to CentOS7.4.

My question is that is there a plan to backport these patches to CentOS7.4? Or where can I find such plan/schedule?

Thanks a lot for any help, Zhou

Now I think the latest kernel for Redhat7.4 ARM is kernel-alt-4.11-44.e17a

However, the latest update for CentOS7.4(7.4.1708) is kernel-alt-4.11.0-22.el7.3.aarch64.rpm, which seems a kernel for Redhat7.3? (http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.4.1708/updates/aarch64/Packages/)

Yes, that kernel is part of the new c7-alt repo on git.centos.org that Red Hat has released (it contains modified RHEL source packages for ppc64/ppc64le and aarch64.

https://git.centos.org/feed/rpms?h=refs/heads/c7-alt&l=150

That package (as well as the others in the c7-alt) have either already been released or are being released today.