Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-21 Thread jsl6uy js16uy
Thanks very much all for the responses Apologies for delayed had a back injury keeping afk Definitely have some food for thought thanks all again On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Anthony K wrote: > On 16/06/16 13:18, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> >> .. the actual definition of a >> 'CRITICAL' up

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-18 Thread Anthony K
On 16/06/16 13:18, Johnny Hughes wrote: .. the actual definition of a 'CRITICAL' update from Red Hat's perspective is: "This rating is given to flaws that could be easily*exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker and lead to system compromise (arbitrary code execution) without requiring

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/15/2016 10:18 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/15/2016 05:10 PM, jsl6uy js16uy wrote: >> Thanks much for the the reply! >> Some sec updates/bug fixes have been applied thru the run of 6u5 and after, >> but yes, still firmly in 6u5 land. Guess will have to test. >> Broadwell cpus do run in the

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/15/2016 8:18 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: I would point out that we provide CentOS-6, which is defined as all the latest updates installed. Point releases are just a mechanism to create installable trees and new installers for new hardware at a point in time. It has never been a tested scenario

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/15/2016 05:10 PM, jsl6uy js16uy wrote: > Thanks much for the the reply! > Some sec updates/bug fixes have been applied thru the run of 6u5 and after, > but yes, still firmly in 6u5 land. Guess will have to test. > Broadwell cpus do run in the OS, but "6u5" is stated as not supporting > 26XXv4

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread jsl6uy js16uy
Thanks much for the the reply! Some sec updates/bug fixes have been applied thru the run of 6u5 and after, but yes, still firmly in 6u5 land. Guess will have to test. Broadwell cpus do run in the OS, but "6u5" is stated as not supporting 26XXv4 chipsets. regards On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:56 PM, J

Re: [CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/15/2016 2:48 PM, jsl6uy js16uy wrote: Hello, all. Hope all is well Is it possible to install kernel and support files from 6u7 into a base 6u5 image to achieve full broadwell support in 6u5? We are "locked", clearly not fully since willing to up jump kernels, on 6u5. "Locked", meaning you

[CentOS] Pulling in broadwell support for cent6u5

2016-06-15 Thread jsl6uy js16uy
Hello, all. Hope all is well Is it possible to install kernel and support files from 6u7 into a base 6u5 image to achieve full broadwell support in 6u5? We are "locked", clearly not fully since willing to up jump kernels, on 6u5. Thanks for any and all help