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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!