Re: Oracle kernel patches for SPARC S7 IB support
On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 08:47 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
> Yes, I am aware of the Oracle UEK patch location on the Internet. Just unsure which
> UEK and NON-UEK related patches are cherry picked and added to Debian sparc64 kernel?
I have not cherry-picked any patches into the Debian kernel yet. Adding custom patches
to the Debian kernel is tedious and takes some time until they get accepted which is
why I prefer getting those patches upstreamed as quickly as possible.
For testing, I am just building test kernels for anyone to play with.
> Also, from my understanding, not all of the UEK patches are added to the Debian kernel
> yet. Is that correct?
None of them are.
> Regarding a newer ISO with a test kernel, just wondering when that may happen time line
> wise? 30 days, 60 days, after several months, next Debian version release, etc? Once
> again, I am new to Debian release schedule procedures and timelines.
For any change to land in an installation ISO, it has be added to the Debian kernel first.
That happens through salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux
Once a patch has landed there, a new kernel package has to be released and once that has
been built and published into the repositories, I have to rebuilt the debian-installer
package and then use that to build a new Debian installation ISO.
Adrian
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