It can be found here:
http://dup.et.redhat.com/
The documentation for ddiskit is rather sparse. I had to dig through
their scripts to understand a bit of it and get it to do what I really
wanted, but it does work! I'd recommend using the new style with a spec
file and rpm building. I've yet to try the depmod.conf overriding to
handle kernel updates when replacing a stock driver. I'm still looking
for a way to roll either the update disk itself or what it generates
into the install media so it is hidden from the user altogether.
-Mark
Chris Hunter wrote:
Never heard of Driver Update Program. Can you provide links/further
info ?
Is this different than dkms ? perhaps you mean kmod kernel modules ?
--Chris
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:23:11 +0100
From: Jaroslaw Polok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding driver to installation
Hi all
Not sure how the procedure at Driver Update Program worked
for others, but we sucessfully use it now on SL(C)5.2
here at CERN for few drivers
(updated e1000e, e1000, ixgbe (with ioatdma) etc)
We intend to have it also for other add-on kernel
modules (whenever possible ... some modules may
not be cross-kernel version compatible due to usage
of functions not in stable RHEL 5 kernel ABI ..)
.. of course we will still need to produce driver disks
for installations - but with the recent driver disk kit
from RH this is also easier: not only such driver disk
image contains kernel modules but also rpms and yum
repository information: as a result during install time
updated/add-on driver can be used and after install
corresponding rpms are installed on the system
(and since these are packaged according to DUP guidelines
.. there is no need to upgrade them with each and every
kernel upgrade)
Sounds like less of work with kernel upgrades, right ? ;-)
Cheers
Jarek
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