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<[email protected]> 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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