Apple Silicon Compatible Kernel for CentOS 8.5

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Apple Silicon Compatible Kernel for CentOS 8.5

Post by systemfailure0x5a » 2022/04/24 18:45:37

So, the most recent version of the Linux kernel now supports running inside a virtual environment under MacOS with the new Apple Silicon ARM chips. It has to do with the SoC only supporting 4K and 16k pages, and most RHEL kernels come with 64K pages by default.

How would I go about getting a compatible kernel (or recompiling the current kernel from 64k to 4k pages), adding it to an ISO, and successfully booting it locally in my lab environment? Would changing the kernel pages from 64K to 4K break anything? In a nutshell -- Where and how should I go about obtaining/compiling the kernel, and how would I get the kernel into an ISO for installation?

I need to do this for my RHCSA 8 certification lab.


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