Hi Pablo, pon., 2 lis 2020 o 20:15 Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar> napisał(a): > > > On 2/11/20 15:27, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After installing Centos8.2 on Marvell CN9132 based platform I noticed > > that compared to altarch7-aarch64 support the Marvell MVPP2 NIC > > support was dropped. > > > > In order to enable it we would need to add > > CONFIG_ARCH_MVEBU=y > > CONFIG_MVPP2=m > > to the SOURCES/kernel-aarch64.config & SOURCES/kernel-aarch64-debug.config > The difference is exatly there, in the altarch. For 8.x, aarch64 is an > official RH Arch, so we use the same configs that they provide. > The only way I see is though the proper Stream channels, I mean filing > an issue in bugzilla.redhat.com under CentOS Stream, providing the > patch and seeing where that goes. > It would be interesting to check in the 8.x release notes if this driver > wasn't specifically deprecated. > If it were x86_64, we could add it to the plus kernel, but I think we > don't build it for aarch64. > Thanks, the driver is not listed as deprecated in the RHEL release notes of course. I created a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894173 - let's see where it takes us. Best regards, Marcin > Wrt altarch kernels (5.4.x at the moment), we use the same configs for > 7.x and 8.x, so hopefully we'll be able to build and release them soon > for 8.x too. > > What are the steps to achieve that? Centos altarch7 had a described > > procedure for submitting the kernel patches, but that seems to be > > changed in the new distro version. > > > > Best regards, > > Marcin > > _______________________________________________ > > Arm-dev mailing list > > Arm-dev at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > Pablo.