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by drewg123
2868 days ago
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RHEL does provide a stable kernel ABI (kABI) that can be and is used by vendors to ship binary drivers. See https://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ When I worked for a NIC hardware vendor, we would ship our driver in 4 forms: 1) source tarball 2) upstream kernel 3) RHEL/Centos kABI compliant source and binary rpms 4) Debian pkg using dkms The upstream kernel driver wasn't good enough for a variety of reasons. For example, on Ubuntu LTS and RHEL, the in-tree driver was often based on a kernel that was several years old and which lacked support for recent hardware or features. |
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