[PVE-User] AMD ZEN 2 (EPYC 7002 aka "rome") kernel requirements

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On September 27, 2019 10:30 am, Mark Adams wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying out one of these new processors, and it looks like I need at
> least 5.2 kernel to get some support, preferably 5.3.
> 
> At present the machine will boot in to proxmox, but IOMMU does not work,
> and I can see ECC memory is not working.
> 
> So my question is, whats the recommended way to get a newer kernel than is
> provided by the pve-kernel package? I understand that pve-kernel uses the
> newer ubuntu kernel rather than the debian buster one, but are you building
> anything else in to it? Will proxmox work ok if I install the ubuntu 5.3
> kernel?

these are the patches we currently ship on-top of Ubuntu Disco's kernel:

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kernel.git;a=tree;f=patches/kernel;hb=refs/heads/master

another thing we add are the ZFS modules. not sure which version Ubuntu 
Eoan ships there.