Johnny Hughes spake the following on 8/18/2006 2:45 AM:
> 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
Can you use something like DKMS?
I haven't looked at it for a while, but it seemed to make some things more
easily portable.
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