On 28/12/2020 23:32, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > Will Stream cut it for me? One issue that keeps getting glossed over is > that many drivers that are already in-kernel, not 3rd party, but > disabled by Red Hat, still have users who need them. ELrepo and others > have provided support at the "point release" milestones for these > "unsupported" drivers; it really looks like Stream will break this hard. > > For instance, I need megaraid_sas for my servers; that's not a 3rd party > binary driver, but is already in-kernel; it is intentionally not built > by Red Hat. ELrepo rebuilds this AND most importantly provides a > working driver disk for installs; I just don't see Red Hat providing > these drivers, even in a SIG, for hardware they have already decided is > "unsupported "; but I always reserve the right to be wrong. > Hi Lamar, Unfortunately there's an issue with driver disk ISO images too, as they are based on point release GA kernels (as are most all OEM ISO driver disks), and Stream regularly releases new installation media based on the latest Stream kernel, so if you need a 3rd party driver disk to install, you are probably out of luck and may not even be able to install CentOS Stream, even if a driver were available. I'm guessing for the next year you could install CentOS Linux 8 and convert to Stream, but after 2021 that will no longer be an option.