[rhelv6-list] ELRepo support for RHEL6

[Phil Perry]

On 05/12/10 20:33, solarflow99 wrote:
> Hi, nice work.  I see a lot of those packages exist in rpmfusion
> already, is this supposed to different from epel?
>

Thanks.

As I understand it, RPMFusion currently caters for Fedora, not RHEL, 
although I understand there might be some interest in supporting RHEL6 
in the future.

EPEL does support RHEL, but I see little/no package overlap with what 
ELRepo is doing.

ELRepo specialises in a very small niche of kABI-tracking kmod packages 
aimed specifically at backporting updated kernel drivers for enhanced 
hardware support. This could be backporting a driver from upstream that 
provides functionality otherwise missing in RHEL (for example, DRBD in 
RHEL6), or providing (backporting) a newer version of an existing kernel 
driver that might provide a bug fix or support newer hardware revisions.

ELRepo is not necessarily designed or intended for widespread usage. In 
an ideal world all your hardware will just work with RHEL. If the 
default kernel driver works for you then you should use it. It is only 
when it doesn't that you might need a package from ELRepo and even then 
we hope our packages eventually become deprecated as and when such 
functionality gets backported to future RHEL kernel releases.


>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Phil Perry<phil at elrepo.org>  wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> The ELRepo Project would like to announce support for RHEL6.
>>
>> http://elrepo.org
>>
>> The ELRepo Project is a 3rd party repository providing updated device
>> drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), versions 5 and 6. ELRepo uses
>> Red Hat's Driver Update Programme to facilitate the packaging of updated
>> drivers (kernel modules) in the form of kABI-compatible kmod packages. The
>> main advantage of this technique is that updated drivers will function
>> seamlessly across kernel updates where kABI-compatibility is retained, thus
>> drivers do not need to be recompiled against each new kernel update.
>>
>> ELRepo currently has a number of kmod packages available for RHEL6,
>> including DRBD, ndiswrapper, NVIDIA graphics drivers and a number of updated
>> vendor NIC drivers from Intel and Realtek. We are currently working on
>> porting more packages from our EL5 tree.
>>
>> The ELRepo Project would welcome feedback from RHEL users, either on our bug
>> reporting site or our mailing lists:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/bugs
>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> The ELRepo Team.
>>
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