Re: Oracle kernel patches for SPARC S7 IB support
Understood. Regarding IB-related patches, feel free to add them to the test kernel. I will attempt to build and execute InfiniBand stress tests to see if anything breaks. I’ll also check for tainted kernel messages. It’s the best I can do without full Orabug description details.
> On Sep 24, 2025, at 9:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> 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 into the 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 into 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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