From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bernard Li
Sent: Mon 27/03/2006 16:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Brian Elliott Finley
Subject: [Sisuite-devel] RE: e100 slowness with trunk
> That's because all the available networks drivers are
compiled
> statically into the kernel.. but the kernel should be able
to
> probe and
> use only the correct one...
>
> As
discussed with Brian the network drivers are needed into the kernel
> to
reach the image server, then additional supports are
> provided by
the
> boel_binaries.tar.gz.
>
> Another solution could be to
compile all as modules and store all that
> modules into the initrd, but
the big disadvantage of this approach
> reduces the scalability. In fact
kernel+initrd can be pulled by the
> clients only via TFTP, so they can't
exploit other nice
> transports, like
> multicast or
bittorrent.
>
> There would be a 3rd solution... compile all as
modules and split the
> network modules (stored into the initrd) and the
other ones (stored in
> boel_binaries)... it should not be so difficult
but it needs some work
> to do... what do you think?
I think either
way is fine... but I just don't understand why e100
doesn't work for
me...
I just built SystemImager 3.7.2 x86_64 and it works fine with e1000
so
it seems that I'm having issues with that particular NIC...
>
> I think the function "autodetect_hardware_and_load_modules()" in
>
> "functions" is no longer necessary, I'll work on removing that as
>
> well as other references to "discover".
> >
>
> This
feature now should be included into the hotplug stuff... but I'm
> not
sure... we need some tests...
I just tried to compile it _without_ the
discover bits and it did not
correctly install the modules (eg. sd_mod was
not installed). Do we
need to make specific hotplug calls or should it
automatically detect
and setup all the modules?
You're right, I think
we still need some tests... ;-)
Cheers,
Bernard
P.S.
Anyways, I think the code in trunk now works with x86 and x86_64,
and I think
Brian is working on ia64... any takers on
ppc?
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