Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-29 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
> Andrew's question is a bit higher level than that, and mostly boils down > to "Which cloud environments do we actually want to support with the > cloud kernel?" That's right. And I'd like it to include GCE, but there are a lot of cloud environments out there so drawing a line somewhere can help

Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 22, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > For example, we’re going to make an Intel 6300ESB watchdog device > available, and that needs a driver that’s been in Linux a long time > but isn’t enabled in the cloud kernel. For that one, another Debian > user +1’d the request because it would benefit users

Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-27 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Andrew On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 07:44:33AM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > The Debian images in Google Compute Engine use the Debian cloud > kernel. This has been working well for us, because it includes the > VirtIO, NVMe, and gVNIC drivers that are needed for most GCE machine > types. As we m

Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > > So we have the problem that the Debian cloud kernel supports some, but > > not all, of the devices our shared users need, and we’re not sure of > > the right way to solve that. We wondered if we should switch the > > images to the

Re: Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-27 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hey Andrew, On 2024-05-22 07:44, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > For example, we’re going to make an Intel 6300ESB watchdog device > available, and that needs a driver that’s been in Linux a long time > but isn’t enabled in the cloud kernel. For that one, another Debian > user +1’d the request because i

Kernel features and Cloud (and GCE)

2024-05-22 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Hi everyone! The Debian images in Google Compute Engine use the Debian cloud kernel. This has been working well for us, because it includes the VirtIO, NVMe, and gVNIC drivers that are needed for most GCE machine types. As we move forward, additional kernel features are needed to support all featu