Re: Driver Disk v3 format

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Thanks for that clarification, Martin!

On 2/1/12 6:10 AM, "Martin Sivak" <msivak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>> So I'm building in ddiskit support to generate the necessary RPMs and
>> will see if the new ddv3 format drivers work for RHEL >= 5.1.
>
>No, it does not. Only in RHEL6.
>
>RHEL5 also requires the modules to exactly match the running kernel. In
>RHEL6 you only need to use compatible symbols (so you can use the DD in
>more than one 6.x release).
>
>Martin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>> 
>> 
>> That makes a lot of sense. This has been all very new to me. I'm a
>> file system guy and the one who worked on all the driver packaging
>> is gone. So we've not been using the ddiskit format at all.
>> Everything's still based on mod_devel_kit to generate driver update
>> disks for RHEL and SLES. But then things went awry with RHEL 6.
>> 
>> 
>> So I'm building in ddiskit support to generate the necessary RPMs and
>> will see if the new ddv3 format drivers work for RHEL >= 5.1. If so,
>> that will simplify things immensely. So I'm pretty pleased now that
>> I found this group. I was pretty lost as to the direction over the
>> weekend. :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Moray Henderson < Moray.Henderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
>> Reply-To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat
>> Linux Installer < anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >
>> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:28:01 +0000
>> To: 'Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux
>> Installer' < anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >
>> Subject: RE: Driver Disk v3 format
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Just spotted that some useful info was sent to me off the kickstart
>> list:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > From: Martin Sivak [ mailto:msivak@xxxxxxxxxx ]
>> 
>> > Sent: 26 January 2012 11:04
>> 
>> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: Adding drivers]
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > there were couple of DD versions..
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > Release notes for 5.1 mention new rpm version of driverdisc indeed.
>> > But
>> 
>> > that is still the RHEL5 version (eg. containing modules.cgz,
>> 
>> > modules.dep, modules-info and rpm files). In RHEL5, anaconda
>> > doesn't
>> 
>> > care about RPMs, it just passes them to Yum so the used drivers are
>> 
>> > also installed to the destination system.
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > There is a different format for RHEL6, we removed the modules.cgz
>> > and
>> 
>> > accompanying files and used only RPMS. Here anaconda uses Provides:
>> 
>> > kernel-modules to detect the RPMs it needs to look at.
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > ddiskit should be doing RHEL5 Driver Update disks (you can check it
>> > by
>> 
>> > looking at the structure), because RHEL6 needs just a rpms/<arch>
>> 
>> > directory (and /rhdd3 file) with createrepo done on it.
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > There is documentation about the RHEL6 format here:
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > 
>>http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=blob;f=docs/driverdisc.
>>txt;h=dee3a305f415794313327378c5d53a38e8b29103;hb=rhel6-branch
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > RHEL5 was more complicated because of all the files, so there is no
>> 
>> > consistent documentation and we prefer using ddiskit tool.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> From: Mike Young [ mailto:myoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]
>> Sent: 31 January 2012 16:29
>> To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux
>> Installer
>> Subject: Re: Driver Disk v3 format
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> That's very helpful to know Moray. Thank you for that added info.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Moray Henderson < Moray.Henderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
>> Reply-To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat
>> Linux Installer < anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >
>> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:26 +0000
>> To: < anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >
>> Subject: RE: Driver Disk v3 format
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> From: Mike Young [ mailto:myoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]
>> Sent: 30 January 2012 17:48
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, First of all, I apologize re-opening such an old thread. But
>> while I have found some clarifications on the file system layout for
>> the ddv3 drivers, along with some patches, I have been unable to
>> actually find any real documentation on how to create a ddv3 driver.
>> For example, I see the structure is as follows: > DDv3 structure >
>> -------------- > / > |rhdd3   - DD marker, contains the DD's
>> description string > /rpms > |  /i386 - contains RPMs for this arch
>> and acts as Yum repo > |  /i586 > |  /x86_64 > |  /ppc > |  /... But
>> what I don't see is what else it might be looking for. Do I still
>> package these folders into a .iso package? If there's some
>> documentation on this procedure, I'd really appreciate a link to it.
>> The search terms I'm using must be too generic and the only thing
>> that reports anything substantive is ddv3. Unfortunately, everything
>> leads back to this thread. Thanks! Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> There¹s been a bit of discussion of this over on kickstart-list
>> recently J The best way to create driver disks is using ddiskit .
>> Beware which distro you¹re using, though. RHEL 5.1 Release Notes
>> state that Anaconda now supports the v3 rpm format, but the
>> Anacondas of CentOS 5.6 and 5.7 do not contain the necessary code. I
>> needed a JMicron(R) JMC250 PCI-E Ethernet Adapter. After fighting
>> the Big Snake for several days, I gave up, put the kmod-jme rpm from
>> ELRepo into my main repository and installed it via kickstart. I
>> don¹tconfigure networking until first boot, so I could get away with
>> that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Moray.
>> 
>> ³To err is human; to purr, feline.²
>> 
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