On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:45:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We were able to resolve this today -- we can now build and install SI flavors from a RH9 machine, for install on a Dell 1750 target with the Broadcomm network adaptor. The key is to migrate SI 3.0.1 to 2.4.21-pre3 first.
I added the following patches to ./patches under our flavor build tree. These patches were extracted from RedHat's own kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm:
patch-2.4.21-pre3.bz2 linux-2.4.20-tg3.patch
(The interesting thing to note here is that the "2.4.20" kernel which ships with RH9 is actually 2.4.21-pre3, but they don't update the version string to say that...)
I renamed these so that the pre3 patch ran first, before all other linux kernel patches, followed immediately by the tg3 patch. I then simply deleted any patches which conflicted later in the build (I think that xfs patches were the only thing that conflicted, and we aren't using xfs...).
I also had to update linux.i386.config, since the above pre3 patch upgrades the kernel to 2.4.21-pre3.
Cool. right now, i'd rather not update the kernel too drastically (i keep hoping 3.2.0 will happen soon).
a standalone tg3 patch is definitely reasonable, but anything that breaks xfs makes me nervous. however, an alternate boot flavor is definitely a reasonable thing to do, especially for 3.0.1. if you want to build one, i'd be glad to host it. if its unclear how to do so, i can walk you through it.
Can i download somewehere a kernel that support the new tg3 card or must i build my own?
PS) Our linux systems use xfs ;-)
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