[Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy

Thu Aug 13 13:35:49 UTC 2015

Unfortunately email with attached patches is to big and being blocked by 
maillist policy. So I've sent them as separate thread.

Please let me know in case of any issues with build and/or hw (probably you 
may need to update firmware at your board).

Vadim

On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 01:09:40 PM Jim Perrin wrote:
> Lets do one large patchset if that's the count. It'll be easier to deal
> with at that point.
> 
> On 08/11/2015 12:40 PM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> > Yes, that would work. I'll prepare patchet based on 4.2-rc5 shortly.
> > Thanks a lot.
> > Are there new srpm for me to pick up and test ? I'd like to have a option
> > to test patches at my side prior to sending them... And one more thing -
> > should I sent patches all-in-one or separate each of them to be
> > available/reviewed at mailist? There ill be about 80 patches in total.
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of
> > Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:19 PM
> > To: arm-dev at centos.org
> > Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> > 
> > We could pick a 4.2-rc5 fedora git hash to rebase to if that's easier
> > for you. This would be fairly close to the vanilla upstream since I'm
> > removing the kdbus patches.
> > 
> > Would that work for you?
> > 
> > On 08/11/2015 09:15 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> >> Hi Jim,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> We've prepared more changes in order to support thunderx but changes are
> >> based at 4.2-rc5 version. To update kernel from 4.2-rc2 to 4.2-rc5 it
> >> would take huge bunch of patches. I've rebase them to rc2 fedora tree
> >> and tested with kernel you provided (build rpms and so on). No issues so
> >> far.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Would it be possible to apply them onto your kernel or I should rebase
> >> them to rc2 (which could be painfull) or other version ?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Vadim
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org> on behalf
> >> of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 1:24 PM
> >> To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
> >> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I haven't, no. I'm in Cambridge this week so my free time is a bit
> >> limited. Next week you'll have my full attention.
> >> 
> >> On Aug 4, 2015 10:08, "Lomovtsev, Vadim"
> >> <Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com<mailto:Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetwork
> >> s.com>> wrote: Have you moved to 4.2-rc3 ? If so there would be some
> >> minor conflict (apart from 4.2-rc2) which I could help to address. Just
> >> in case - I've prepared patches for 4.2-rc2.
> >> 
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>
> >> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on
> >> behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 7:21 PM
> >> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> >> 
> >> I ran into a couple applying the patchset, but I think this is mostly
> >> solvable, and due to the fact that we don't have the kernel in git yet
> >> for common patching/updates. I'll play around with it a bit more this
> >> afternoon.
> >> 
> >> On 07/30/2015 05:03 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> >>> Hi Jim,
> >>> 
> >>> Were you able to apply patches and test them?
> >>> Are there any issues ? if so please let me know...
> >>> 
> >>> WBR,
> >>> Vadim
> >>> 
> >>> ________________________________________
> >>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>
> >>> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on
> >>> behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
> >>> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 3:58 PM
> >>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> >>> 
> >>> Overall, it will be easier when we have this alternate kernel plumbed
> >>> into git and patches/pull requests can be done directly against the
> >>> repo. I'll pull your patches a bit later today and try them out.
> >>> 
> >>> On 07/27/2015 06:09 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> >>>> Yes, but not sure if did this in right way.
> >>>> I've updated config-arm64 with new options and was able to build rpms.
> >>>> 
> >>>> ________________________________________
> >>>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>
> >>>> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on
> >>>> behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
> >>>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 10:03 PM
> >>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> >>>> 
> >>>> Sorry, I've been out at OSCON this week with somewhat limited
> >>>> connectivity. Were you able to get this sorted?
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 07/22/2015 11:23 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> >>>>> I'm trying to rebuild kernel rpm but it fails due to new options in
> >>>>> .config has been added, any help with that would be much appreciated?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ________________________________________
> >>>>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>
> >>>>> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on
> >>>>> behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
> >>>>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 5:03 PM
> >>>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I've currently working on a kernel build that's based off the fedora
> >>>>> tree. The commit hash I'm building from there is
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 228ccc4defbda4317b06d561e5fb532c774fe2e2
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> My changes are mostly to the spec file, and the removal of the kdbus
> >>>>> patches. You can find the src.rpm for my kernel at ->
> >>>>> http://people.centos.org/jperrin/kernels/kernel-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.cen
> >>>>> tos.el7.src.rpm
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I have a bit more specfile cleanup to do here, but it will work to
> >>>>> patch
> >>>>> against.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On 07/17/2015 08:53 AM, 
Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com<mailto:Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com> 
wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> We have some set of patches for our processor (Cavium Thunderx) and
> >>>>>> would like to add them to CentOS kernel for the time while they are
> >>>>>> being submitted into mainline.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Is there any set policy for submitting patches to be included into
> >>>>>> CentOS
> >>>>>> kernel? And which kernel version/commit I should base my changes on?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Vadim
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> >>>>> 
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