[CentOS-devel] 32 bit Centos 7

[Keith Keller]

On 2014-07-24, Bradford Lilly <bradford.r.lilly.ctr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem is, in my specific case, I have a requirement to move to kernel
> 3.10. 3.10 requires changes to udev. udev then requires systemd ... you see
> where this is going. Just upgrading EL6 isn't an option and very quickly
> becomes a maintenance / support nightmare.

I am successfully running 3.14 from the aforementioned ELRepo on a
CentOS 6 box.  And pulling from ELRepo eases the maintenance issues as
well, since all their kernels are easily available via their yum repo.


> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
>>
>> Upstream has also "abandoned" a significant number of hardware RAID cards
>> and network cards in EL7.

I think this is a separate issue from running 32bit CentOS.  In your
example, the problem is potentially solved by porting the appropriate
kernel module to the CentOS 7 kernel.  But it's currently impossible to
run CentOS 7 on 32 bit, period.  It's a lot less work to try to port one
module to CentOS 64bit than to port every package to CentOS 32bit.

--keith



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