[Arm-dev] Next set of APM X-Gene patches

[Jim Perrin]

The build appears to be successful, so I'm going to smoke-test it
tonight, and push tomorrow. If all goes well it will hit updates and git
tomorrow morning (US/Central time).



On 01/05/2016 08:12 PM, Phong Vo wrote:
> Thanks, Jim!
> 
> I am attaching an additional patch to fix an issue due to a previous
> change causing
> Mellanox driver not to come up.  Please see if you can accommodate it in
> this round
> of kernel update.
> 
> -Phong
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim Perrin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 11:05 PM
> To: arm-dev at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Next set of APM X-Gene patches
> 
> I hit a snag with the installer segfaulting on specific hardware. I've
> since resolved that and have pushed an iso for Johnny to test as well.
> If that works, I'll be syncing the trees and pushing this week.
> 
> Your patches will be rolled into an update kernel that will also be
> available at the same time. This way the install media matches what
> people expect, and the updates are available to enable the additional
> features.
> 
> On 01/04/2016 07:57 PM, Phong Vo wrote:
>> Happy New Year, Jim.
>>
>> I am following up on this submission whether it has been done.
>>
>> Also, when do we have a full 4.2 release with installer and rootfs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Phong
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jim Perrin
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 9:09 PM
>> To: arm-dev at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Next set of APM X-Gene patches
>>
>> Got it, thanks.
>>
>> On 12/09/2015 01:01 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> Please find the attached APM patches for 4.2 based kernel.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Phong
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Jim Perrin
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 3:55 AM
>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Next set of APM X-Gene patches
>>>
>>> I've just pushed pushed the update to the sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch.
>>> You can find the new 4.2 based kernel at
>>> https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-altarch!kernel.git
>>>
>>> If you could supply any needed patches for that kernel I'll run through
>>> the build.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/02/2015 08:00 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>> We need to enable newly added configuration, and the only way I could
>>>> think of is to do it as part of kernel-aarch64.spec utilizing the
>>>> existing configuration merge mechanism, and without impacting the
>>>> config-xxx files received from Redhat.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, 4.2 patches are ready. I'll submit as soon as you are ready.
>>>> However, we still need to resolve the config issue then.
>>>>
>>>> -Phong
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>>>>> I've been reasonably head-down on getting the new sources built.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess my concern here is the need to merge your config changes in
>>> each
>>>>> iteration. Is there a particular reason for doing it that way? Are
> you
>>>>> trying to ensure ordering here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, we'll have the updated builds ready to go in the next few days.
>> I
>>>>> can run with this for the 3.19 update for now, however we'd need the
>>> 4.2
>>>>> patches reasonably soon. Would that be a problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/02/2015 03:44 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have any feedback?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Phong
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Phong Vo <pvo at apm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am resending the config patch. The change is to use merge.pl to
>>>>>>> merge config-centos-sig into the final config in
>> SPECS/kernel-aarch64
>>>>>>> instead of modifying Makefile.config.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The patch is against branch 3.19 of
>>> git://git.centos.org/sig-altarch/kernel.git
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Phong
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 11/23/2015 09:42 AM, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The config patch works fine for me.  It would be creating a
>>>>>>>>> SOURCES/config-centos-sig and also modifying
>>> SOURCES/Makefile.config.
>>>>>>>>> Actually, the patch is against the 3.19 version of c7-aarch64,
> not
>>> the
>>>>>>>>> sig-altarch/kernel 3.19 branch version; but I believe both should
>>> be
>>>>>>>>> the same.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Right. It's this modification of the Makefile.config I'm trying to
>>>>>>>> avoid. The way the configs are combined in the spec file mean that
>>> we
>>>>>>>> don't need to modify it. It's a semantic difference in how the
>>> packaging
>>>>>>>> is done, where I'm trying to reduce or eliminate the need to
>>>>>>>> modify/touch files provided by rh or in the kernel tarball.
>>>>>>>>
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