On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Alan Bartlett wrote:

> On 28 April 2010 14:10, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2010 21:54, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines.
>
> Mark,
>
> Further to my earlier message, I have re-read your initial sentence above.
>
> A SL 5.2 system will be using a kernel from the 2.6.18-92.x.y.el5
> series.

It is possible to update any SL5.x system to the latest kernel
that is available, so you should be able to get around that.
i.e. I am running kernels from the 5.4 series on 5.3 systems all the
time and did 5.3 on 5.2 also.
Steve


>Unfortunately the kmod-nvidia[-*] packages that are available
> from ELRepo, although being kABI tracking, will only weak-link back to
> the 2.6.18-128.x.y.el5 kernel series (i.e. SL 5.3) and not, like many
> of the other packages, back to the original 2.6.18-8.x.y.el5 kernels.
>
> So having raised your hopes, I now have to dash them. Sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Alan.
>

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