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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi All,
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> here are some first results (SMP systems only).
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> Ok:
> o fresh kickstart install on hardware already supported by 4.2
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> o yum update from a fully patched 4.2
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> o AFS client; SELinux problems seem fixed upstream
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> Problems:
> o the images in isolinux/ are stale (4.2 build)
Forgot to change my rync script. They were excluded by mistake. Will
fix.
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> o kickstart install on system w/ Marvell Yukon NIC fails
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Stephan
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>
Thanks for reporting these issues. Will report back with what I find.
-connie sieh
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