[CentOS] test builds on private server updates (kernel)

Sat Jun 10 21:29:29 UTC 2017
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 06/10/2017 08:47 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote:
> Hallo Hughes,
> 
> thanks to let me know. It is good that you have a focus on LTS 4.9.
>  
> Unfortunately it is so that the new graphics cards from amd to today are not served in the opensource.
> That's why I'm experimenting with the latest stable versions and what is so. 
> 
> My laptop has done the linux-firmware update well, it is nevertheless one of the newest. 
> 
> The kernel and appropriate firmware is unfortunately only the one side of a driver when it comes to graphics cards.
> 
> The hardware decoding works only sometimes. On CentOS in the moment not (Radeon / Intel), 
> but that is not synonymous the focus of a server system. This happens to me also with the
> original packages.
> 
> I give my homework free in the thought that it might help somebody out there.
> 


No problem at all, and thanks for posting.  It might indeed help others.

If you take a look at the git repo for the linux-firmware, you can see
the actions that make that installable on both CentOS-7 and also for
CentOS-6 in the xen kernel tree (a couple of obsoletes and some other
minor changes).

https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-altarch!linux-firmware.git

Keep up the good work.


> Am Samstag, den 10.06.2017, 05:52 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
>> On 06/10/2017 05:17 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>> Because my tests on AMD and Intel, I had to update the linux firmware. 
>>> Update comes from the upstream fedora packet and also works on centos with new kernel.
>>>
>>> linux-firmware-20170605-74.git37857004.el7.centos.noarch
>>>
>>
>> If people want an experimental kernel and linux-firmware that lives in
>> the centos namespace, we have this:
>>
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/
>>
>> There are i386 and x86_64 kernels there.
>>
>> Currently we are tracking the 4.9 LTS kernel branch and the fedora
>> linux-firmware mentioned above.
>>
>> This is also the kernel that we use in the armhfp (32 bit Arm) SIG.
>>


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