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Re: RHEL kernel on SL 4.1
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:06 -0500
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Daniel,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Pfenniger wrote:

> 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!

If these binary modules were built against the RedHat binary kernel(with 
the same version) then they should work with the SL kernel too(versions 
have to match).

-Connie Sieh
 > 
> 	Dan
>

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