4 We use the RHEL7 kernel sources, available from:
6 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/
9 Additional/Updated Modules:
10 ---------------------------
12 - include latest ixgbe driver from intel/sourceforge
14 - include latest igb driver from intel/sourceforge
16 - include latest e1000e driver from intel/sourceforge
18 # this driver does not compile with RHEL7 kernel
19 #- include latest Broadcom bnx2 drivers
21 # * original file linux-7.8.56.zip contains
22 # netxtreme2-7.8.56.tar.gz (added to repository)
24 - include latest Adaptec aacraid driver
26 * http://download.adaptec.com/raid/aac/linux/aacraid-linux-src-1.2.1-40300.tgz
28 - include latest ARECA RAID drivers
30 * http://www.areca.com.tw/support/s_linux/linux.htm
35 We create our own firmware package, which includes the firmware for
36 all proxmox-ve kernels. So far this include
44 We use 'find-firmware.pl' to extract lists of required firmeware
45 files. The script 'assemble-firmware.pl' is used to read those lists
46 and copy the files from various source directory into a target
49 We do not include firmeware for some wireless HW when there is a
50 separate debian package for that, for example:
60 bridge-patch.diff: Avoid bridge problems with changing MAC
61 see also: http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&th=5291
63 Behaviour after 2.6.27 has changed slighly - after setting mac address
64 of bridge device, then address won't change. So we could omit
65 that patch, requiring to set hwaddress in /etc/network/interfaces.
68 Additional information
69 ----------------------
71 We use the default configuration provided by RHEL, and apply
72 the following modification:
74 see config-3.10.0.diff
76 - enable common CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XXX to avoid hardware detection
77 problems (udev, undate-initramfs hav serious problems without that)
83 - disable module signatures (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG)
85 - enable IBM JFS file system
87 This is disabled in RHEL kernel for no real reason, so we enable
88 it as requested by users (bug #64)
90 - enable apple HFS and HFSPLUS
92 This is disabled in RHEL kernel for no real reason, so we enable
93 it as requested by users
95 - enable CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
97 Else we get warnings on boot, that
98 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables is an unknown key
100 - disable CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX
102 Use same SELINUX config as debian kernels (CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC=y)
104 - set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
106 because if not set, it can give some dynamic memory or cpu frequencies
107 change, and vms can crash (mainly windows guest).
109 see http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/18238-Windows-7-x64-VMs-crashing-randomly-during-process-termination?p=93273#post93273
111 - set CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR=y
113 gcc on debian wheezy does not supportCONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
115 # Note: enable now for testing
116 #- disable CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING
118 # To avoid problems with multicasting. Various users reported
119 # multipath problems, which can be avoided by turning off IGMP
122 # deadline is default anyways now
123 #- use 'deadline' as default scheduler
125 # This is the suggested setting for KVM. We also measure bad fsync
126 # performance with ext4 and cfq.
128 Testing final kernel with kvm
129 -----------------------------
131 kvm -kernel data/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-2-pve -initrd initrd.img-3.10.0-2-pve -append "vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr" /dev/zero