Hi Enrico, Troy, All,
and this spec modification works for both, dom0 and domU? In other words,
a -xen kernel for SL/TUVEL4 is always smp, even the domU one? Forgive my
stupid questions, I've only experimented with xen on "SL5" (TUVEL5 beta 1
with a little lie in /etc/redhat-release) where they have only smp
kernels (which will turn all lock instructions needed for SMP into noops
at boot time if the system is actually UP).
As a side remark, I've been working on a 1.4.2 package that will build and
work on SL3/4/5. I was almost sure it's ready, but this xen-related change
for SL4 change should obviously be included once the question above is
answered.
But regarding SL5, there's one design question to be answered:
Should/will SL stay with the "kernel-module" scheme for kernel modules, or
adopt the "kmod" scheme that's in use in FC6 and EL5beta, and will most
likely be in EL5 GA? I don't have too strong an opinion on this issue
(both have their pros and cons), but it would be nice to have the giants'
ruling on it...
Hope I haven't started a flame war now,
Stephan
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Enrico M. V. Fasanelli wrote:
> Hi Troy,
>
> no, I'm sorry. I'm using the RHEL4 ones, built by xensource people.
>
> You can download the "dom0" stuff from
> http://www.xensource.com/download/dl_303rhel4.html and the "domU" ones from
> http://www.xensource.com/download/dl_303guest_rhel4.html
>
> They work perfectly on my new SL4.4 box
>
> Ciao,
>
> Enrico
>
> Troy Dawson wrote:
> > Hello Enrico,
> > You don't happen to have a kernel-xen for Scientific Linux 4.x do you?
> >
> > Troy
> >
> > Enrico M. V. Fasanelli wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I made two little changes to the openafs-1.4.1-11.SL.spec in order to
> > > build an rpm kernel module for xen kernel.
> > >
> > > Here the diff.
> > >
> > >
> > > [root@main-00 ~]# diff -c /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openafs-1.4.1-12.SL.spec \
> > > > /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openafs-1.4.1-11.SL.spec
> > > *** /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openafs-1.4.1-12.SL.spec 2006-11-17
> > > 13:25:29.000000000 +0100
> > > --- /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openafs-1.4.1-11.SL.spec 2006-05-19
> > > 09:40:48.000000000 +0200
> > > ***************
> > > *** 1,5 ****
> > > %define afsvers 1.4.1
> > > ! %define pkgrel 0.12.SL
> > >
> > > #release candidates:
> > > #define srcvers %{afsvers}-%(echo %{pkgrel}|sed 's/^0//'|sed
> > > 's/\\..*//')
> > > --- 1,5 ----
> > > %define afsvers 1.4.1
> > > ! %define pkgrel 0.11.SL
> > >
> > > #release candidates:
> > > #define srcvers %{afsvers}-%(echo %{pkgrel}|sed 's/^0//'|sed
> > > 's/\\..*//')
> > > ***************
> > > *** 16,22 ****
> > > # (*) Request building of kernel modules
> > > # --define "build_modules 1"
> > > %{!?kernel: %define kernel %(uname -r)}
> > > - %define xen %(echo %{kernel} | grep -q xen && echo 1 || echo 0)
> > > %define smp %(echo %{kernel} | grep -q smp && echo 1 || echo 0)
> > > %define hugemem %(echo %{kernel} | grep -q hugemem && echo 1 || echo 0)
> > > %define largesmp %(echo %{kernel} | grep -q largesmp && echo 1 ||
> > > echo 0)
> > > --- 16,21 ----
> > > ***************
> > > *** 819,825 ****
> > > %if %{build_modules}
> > >
> > > srcdir=${sysname}/dest/root.client/usr/vice/etc/modload
> > > ! %if %smp || %hugemem || %xen
> > > modname=libafs-%{kernel}.mp.ko
> > > %else
> > > modname=libafs-%{kernel}.ko
> > > --- 818,824 ----
> > > %if %{build_modules}
> > >
> > > srcdir=${sysname}/dest/root.client/usr/vice/etc/modload
> > > ! %if %smp || %hugemem
> > > modname=libafs-%{kernel}.mp.ko
> > > %else
> > > modname=libafs-%{kernel}.ko
> > > ***************
> > > *** 1125,1135 ****
> > >
> > > ###############################################################################
> > >
> > >
> > > %changelog
> > > - * Fri Nov 17 2006 Enrico M.V. Fasanelli <[log in to unmask]> 1.4.1-12.SL
> > > - - added check on "xen" in the kernel version substring in order to build
> > > - the kernel module with correct version number.
> > > - - correct the afsvers value in this changelog
> > > -
> > > * Fri May 19 2006 Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> 1.4.0-11.SL
> > > - added openafs-1.4.1-rxkad-ticketsize.patch, see mail to openafs-info
> > > by H. Reuter 2006-05-17 (and the reply by R. Toebbicke)
> > > --- 1124,1129 ----
> > >
> >
> >
>
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