[CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Tue Mar 12 11:21:01 UTC 2019
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:16:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > I updated my PR: [3]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18
> >
> > Hi Karl, I've build and tested your PR, but without the GCC7 patch, and
> > when I've tested it on el6, none of the guests had network access.
> > I had to revert the bridge changes to have them working
> > (CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=m and CONFIG_BRIDGE=m).
> >
> > Why did you want the BRIDGE built-in instead of a module?
> >
> > Maybe you have something to setup the bridge (probably filter) properly,
> > or maybe something is different in the xen package between el6 and el7.
> > Any idea?
> >
> > I still have to investigate the Xen pkg, and have a closer look at those
> > tests I'm running.
> >
> > Hum strange. I switched from module to built-in because I always had a
> > deprecated warning about bridge when booting CentOS 6 (and I guess
> > everyone needs bridge?). I don't remember what was the exact warning
> > because it's been a long time since I switched it. I don't mind to put it
> > back as a module, both works for me but the warning is gone when built-in.
> >
>
> Yeah better to keep things as modules, like they have been.
>
> btw upstream Linux 4.9 LTS kernel is now at 4.9.162 :)
>
>
I suggest we:
1) Rebase to linux 4.9.162.
2) Drop the "set bridge to built-in instead of module" changes. Let's keep those settings like they were earlier.
3) Drop the use of gcc7 for now.
How does that sound?
Thanks,
-- Pasi
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