Beena, I've been trying to examine the current 31-bit rawhide stuff, but the main Red Hat site, and all the mirrors are way too busy. So, I can't answer the question of what images have what modules included, etc. IBM did release the source for the lcs module, but Red Hat has not necessarily incorporated that into all the versions of their kernels that they have available. With the current network load, no one's going to be able to figure that out, either. Florian, can you comment?
If you have any Intel (or other) Linux systems laying around, you can do the tasks necessary to build the OCO modules into the GA initrd. It's really very straightforward. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Makhijani, Beena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no lcs moudle found with REDHAT 7.2 Hi, The instructions on DeveloperWorks seem to indicate that you need a Linux system somewhere before you can install the OCO OSA modules. What could I do if I do not have a Linux system? I was under the impression that by using the rawhide code, I do not have to install the OCO modules, but I guess that was not correct. Thanks, Beena -----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 12:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no lcs moudle found with REDHAT 7.2 At 18:48 03-05-02, Miller, Ila wrote: >What kind of information is Red Hat expecting at the Please enter any >parameters you need to pass to the channel device layer? Do I need to deal >with these OCO modules if I install Red Hat linux in an S/390 LPAR? I was >hoping this would be an easy do. Yes, you especially need the OCO module in LPAR. When you're on VM you can have the VM TCP/IP stack do the 'hard work' and talk IUCV or CTC to it, but on LPAR you have to do what your hardware does. IBM did release the source code for the LCS driver, and RedHat put that in the Rawhide of the 64 bit distribution, but at that time not yet in the 31 bit (and you can hardly blame them for giving priority to the paying customers when we can try the stuff out for free). It is fairly easy to merge the OCO modules into the RedHat supplied initrd following the instructions on DeveloperWorks. Do remember to put a ramdisk_size=10240 or so in your parmfile. Rob
