[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 hardware enablement

Mon Jun 17 22:39:39 UTC 2019
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:32 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/19 2:51 PM, BC wrote:
> > According to https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/hardware-enablement_considerations-in-adopting-rhel-8
> > a lot of hardware is no longer supported. Specifically SAS1 drivers
> > are my concern. Does the CentOS team plan to include those drivers in
> > a centos-extras kernel? Likewise, would anaconda's environment have
> > support for them or is it expected that people will have to generate
> > their own kernel and install image?
>
> Traditionally we've solved missing driver issues with the centosplus
> kernel, and we'll continue to do that with el8 as well. Additionally
> we're working a bit more closely with the elrepo folks who can provide
> driver update disks so that these drivers are available at install time.
>
> DUD images in my opinion are a better solution than carrying added
> drivers in multiple anaconda/install images.
> --
> Jim Perrin

The work between ELRepo and Red Hat/CentOS mentioned by Jim is ongoing
and there are some driver update disks (DUDs) in place here:

https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/

Your hardware may be supported by one of them. Can you check your
controller's device IDs as shown by 'lspci -nn' ?

Akemi