[CentOS-virt] New 4.9.11-22 kernels and linux-firmware packages to test in xen-testing for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

Mon Feb 27 13:00:56 UTC 2017
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 02/21/2017 11:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I have pushed some new kernels and linux-firmware packages to the
> xen-testing repos for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7.  The CentOS-7 packages
> may take a few hours to make it to the repo.
> 
> The CentOS-6 repo also contains a newer xfsprogs as that is required
> with newer kernels (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605).
> 
> This kernel (and supplementary xfsprogs, linux-firmware) are scheduled
> to be the replacements for the 3.18.x LTS tree that has gone EOL from
> Kernel.org.  We can maintain the 4.9 LTS tree until January 2019
> (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html).
> 
> We have added in blktap2 support to this kernel, please test that
> functionality if you need it, it seems to be working to me.
> 
> We really need people to test this kernel and associated packages
> thoroughly so we can find and fix issues before release.
> 
> Please post any issues or questions on this list.


OK, just tagged 4.9.13-22.el7 (and .el6) to the testing repos for xen on
c6 and c7 as this fixes the new dccp kernel issue.

Only have one person reporting good tests so far.  We need more testing
or we risk to breaking people's systems when we release later.


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