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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:42:08 -0600
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> here are some first results (SMP systems only).
> 
> Ok:
>   o fresh kickstart install on hardware already supported by 4.2
> 
>   o yum update from a fully patched 4.2
> 
>   o AFS client; SELinux problems seem fixed upstream
> 
> Problems:
>   o the images in isolinux/ are stale (4.2 build)

Forgot to change my rync script.  They were excluded by mistake.  Will 
fix.

> 
>   o kickstart install on system w/ Marvell Yukon NIC fails
> 
>     This is supposed to be supported by Update 3. Yet nothing on
>     the installation initrd knows about the device or the sky2 driver
>     (which is also missing from modules.cgz).

I have not done the new anaconda yet.  I suspect that will fix it.

> 
>     Compared to the one from CentOS 4.3, some others are missing well
>     (bnx2, megaraid_sas, qla2100, qla_2400). There are also differences
>     in the pcitable, pci.ids, module-info etc.

If these are new drivers then I assume that they were added to the updated 
anaconda.  If they were existing drivers then they should be there.  Will 
research.

 > 
>     While I wouldn't care too much for the sky2, I think at least the
>     megaraid_sas driver will be needed for some quite common hardware to
>     be released during the life of 4.3.
> 
> Cheers,
>  	Stephan
> 
> 

Thanks for reporting these issues.  Will report back with what I find.

-connie sieh

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