On 2014-07-24, Bradford Lilly bradford.r.lilly.ctr@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is, in my specific case, I have a requirement to move to kernel 3.10. 3.10 requires changes to udev. udev then requires systemd ... you see where this is going. Just upgrading EL6 isn't an option and very quickly becomes a maintenance / support nightmare.
I am successfully running 3.14 from the aforementioned ELRepo on a CentOS 6 box. And pulling from ELRepo eases the maintenance issues as well, since all their kernels are easily available via their yum repo.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Scott Dowdle dowdle@montanalinux.org
Upstream has also "abandoned" a significant number of hardware RAID cards and network cards in EL7.
I think this is a separate issue from running 32bit CentOS. In your example, the problem is potentially solved by porting the appropriate kernel module to the CentOS 7 kernel. But it's currently impossible to run CentOS 7 on 32 bit, period. It's a lot less work to try to port one module to CentOS 64bit than to port every package to CentOS 32bit.
--keith