[PVE-User] PVE kernel (sources, build process, etc.)

[Uwe Sauter]

Hi Thomas,

Am 22.08.18 um 09:55 schrieb Thomas Lamprecht:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> On 8/22/18 9:48 AM, Uwe Sauter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> some quick questions:
>>
>> * As far as I can tell the PVE kernel is a modified version of Ubuntu kernels, correct?
>>   Modifications can be viewed in the pve-kernel.git repository ( https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kernel.git;a=tree ).
>>
> 
> Yes, in the respective git branch (master is currently 4.13 and pve-kernel-4.15 is, you guess it, 4.15
> patches/ includes on-top bug/security fixes also some out of tree modules get included (ZFS, igb, e1000e)

I'm mostly interested in the myri10ge driver right now. From what I can tell, you do ship this particular driver without modification?


> 
>> * pve-kernel 4.13 is based on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-artful.git/ ?
>>
> 
> Yes. (Note that this may not get much updates anymore)
> 
>> * pve-kernel 4.15 is based on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-bionic.git/ ?
>>
> 
> Yes. We're normally on the latest stable release tagged on the master branch.
> 

I'll checkout both and compare the myri10ge drivers…


Thanks,

	Uwe


> cheers,
> Thomas
>