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Re: RHEL kernel on SL 4.1
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Daniel Pfenniger <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:22:52 +0200
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Connie Sieh wrote:
 > Daniel,
 >
...
 > So you are saying that RedHat has a kernel binary that has proprietary
 > kernel modules already in it.  I guess that I did not know that they did
 > that.
 >
 > -Connie Sieh

No, the network card vendor distributes binary modules for specific kernels.
The kernel is then "tainted" since working with non-GPL code. I believe
Linus finds this OK.   Up to now I could run the cluster on RH7.3 but
the newest modules are no longer supported for RH7.3, which provides
a good excuse to upgrade the cluster to SL!

	Dan

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