[Arm-dev] [Question] CentOS7.4 for ARM update plan

[Jammy Zhou]

On 24 November 2017 at 10:37, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 11/23/2017 06:31 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 23 November 2017 at 23:48, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org
> > <mailto:johnny at 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?
>

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?


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