On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:49 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > On Aug 17, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > I am building the new CentOSPlus kernel for i386/x86_64. > > > > It is based on the 2.6.9-42.EL kernel that will be part of CentOS-4.4. > > > > Currently it has all the features of the older plus kernels and all > > the > > items turned on by the upstream provider in their main kernel ... > > except > > that XFS is being removed from this kernel (and added by a standalone > > module that has newer sgi code for xfs). > > > > I am not going to add patches to the kernel, but I will entertain > > requests to turn on features that are included and require users to > > have > > to recompile their kernels (that don't require adding patches). > > despite the fact that you said that you won't patch the kernel, i > can't help but submit a plea for a reinstatement of the legacy LSI > MegaRAID driver (documented here: http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/ > index.php?url=archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy- > Megaraid-Drivers.html) > > i haven't yet encountered a Red Hat/CentOS kernel release under which > the legacy megaraid driver didn't build, and i suspect this would be > helpful to people other than just me. it installs just find > alongside the new megaraid drivers and doesn't conflict with them or > confuse kudzu. > > please? > > -steve > We are working on a CD DriverDisk for CentOS-4.4 We will put this driver as well as other open source drivers on that CD, so you can use them with the DD option to install on CentOS-4. We will also work out a way for the modules to be moved between kernels or provide them as standalone modules for install. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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