[CentOS-devel] 32 bit Centos 7

[Bradford Lilly]

Keith ... I'm currently running a 3.10 kernel on Centos6, but I keep
running into udev issues. What I found was the sysfs has changed
significantly enough from 2.6.32 to 3.10 that SUBSYSTEM references in udev
rules no longer resolve properly. For home use, this may not be too
noticeable, but our application relies heavily on udev.

For my needs to be met, I'm going to need a 32bit enterprise linux 7
derivative ...  CentOS or otherwise. Rather than just hope it will happen
eventually, I'm trying to get involved. There were some good pointers on
things that need done already mentioned, and come mid-august I'm going to
be devoting a fair amount of time to these. If you guys all have other
solutions that work for you instead of a 32 bit EL7, that's great. My
project needs EL7 32 though, so that means I'm making something work one
way or another. Just figured there were others in the community that had
similar needs.


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Keith Keller <
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> 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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