[CentOS] CentOS Linux 7 (1708) AltArch i386 Kernel

Tue Jan 9 18:15:03 UTC 2018
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> Red Hat no longer maintains the i386 kernel for RHEL 7.4.  We have been
> using a modified kernel until this latest meltdown / spectre  release
> (*kernel-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7*).
>
> This latest release does not build on i386/i686 and we can't figure out
> how to make it work.
>
> Build try:
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7.1708.u.i386/kernel/
> 20180109171431/3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.centos.plus.i386/
>
> SRPM:
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel-3.10.0-693.11.
> 6.el7.centos.plus.src.rpm
>
> In the mean time, people running the altarch i386 distribution can the
> latest i386 experimental kernel .. use the repo file from here (bottom
> of the page,  'CentOS-Experimental.repo' to '/etc/yum.repo.d/' ) to get it:
>
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386
>
> We could use some community help in:
>
> 1. Making the 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.centos.plus.i386 build.
>
> 2.  Testing the 4.9.75.el7.centos.i686 kernel from the experimental repo
> on the i386 arch.
>
> Please post info on this thread in the mailing list.
>

​Or you can upload patch(es) to this bug report:

​
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14353

​Akemi​