[CentOS] Re: ISA Support in CentOS 4.4?

[Eric B.]

"Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b at mail.gmail.com...
>> Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to
>> rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA
>> support in CentOS4.4?  If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
>
>
> Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing
> list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained
> how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki
> (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
>
> Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by
> Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.

Thanks for the advice.  I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild 
the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was 
confused by one thing.  The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the 
ISA option to be enabled.  Wouldn't that be the default setting of the 
kernel then?  I am running 2.6.9-42.EL.  Wouldn't that imply that it is 
enabled on that kernel then?  Is there a way I can check to validate that it 
isn't already enabled?

Thanks,

Eric