On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 04:45 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. ---- Like Steve, I have been building this one manually myself with each kernel release. Thanks Craig