V3 kernel for RHEL6?
Hello
Is there an officially supported V3.X kernel for RHEL6?
The closest I can find is ... http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
Thanks in advance
Andrea Gilbert
Responses
Andrea, in short.. no.
RHEL6 uses the 2.6.32 kernel and one of the primary goals of the RHEL distribution model is to provide long term support for this version of the kernel through backports until the support period ends for RHEL6.
If you need a 3.x kernel I suggest moving to RHEL 7 which uses 3.10.0.
Specifically what feature from the 3.x kernel do you need?
The RHEL development process is such that we're constantly backporting features from upstream all through the Production 1 phase.
You may find your feature of interest is already in the latest RHEL6 kernel.
This process is explained more thoroughly on our knowledgebase at:
No. As the prior 2 posters stated RHEL6 will use a modified version of the 2.6.32 kernel through its life. All the other packages on RHEL6 are optimized to work together so even if you did somehow get the later kernel installed it would no longer truly be RHEL6.
RHEL7 is based on the V3 kernel so if you really need features in that version you should look at going to RHEL7.
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