Noted with thanks. On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 03:22, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote: > > On 24/09/2019 20:14, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > > > >> Am 24.09.2019 um 21:11 schrieb Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>: > >> > >> Mainline kernel packages are available from elrepo for el8. Current version is kernel-ml-5.3.x: > >> > >> https://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el8/x86_64/RPMS/ <https://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el8/x86_64/RPMS/> > >> > >> Is that new enough for you? > > > > > > Sorry to ask this dumb question, but what’s the disadvantage of using such a kernel? > > > > I assume, some of the newer kernel-features would need special utilities or upgraded versions of the utilities included? > > > > It's not a RHEL (or CentOS) kernel so you lose the stability (kABI), > robustness, testing etc that comes with an Enterprise Linux kernel. > Additionally, as you correctly identify it may break things or not work > / play well with current userland bits. > > It's a use at your own risk offering to allow you to try out features / > functionality that have yet to appear in the distro kernel :-) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017) and in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----