On 10/10/2017 01:30 AM, Itaru Kitayama wrote: > Hi, > > In our attempt upgrading from 4.5.0-25.el7.aarch64 to the 4.11-based kernel > we see the latter does not boot on ThunderX. > > Here's the HW details: > > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server/R150-T62-rev-100#support-manual > > The BIOS release is T43. (According Red Hat, they've been testing fine > their > 1 socket GIGABYTE server with their RHEL 7 kernels.) > This is usually down to firmware issues, but we don't test every possible hardware/firmware variation to validate. > I am wondering what ThunderX platform CentOS has been using for testing, > and > the list happens to have the above HW. > > The boot process seems to be stuck as soon as system prints our EFI stub > messages. > No messages from the kernel. > > Is the CentOS Alt architecture group going to release a 4.12 or .13 > kernel soon? We'll likely match what RH does for their aarch64/arm64 support. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77