Jaroslaw Polok wrote: >> I have been wondering if SL can adopt kABI-tracking kmod packages. > > I guess it could , Troy ? Connie ? > > We do it for SL CERN, so far following add-on/replacement modules are > packaged and distributed this way: > > e1000 ( 8.0.6 ) > e1000e ( 0.5.11 ) > ixgbe ( 1.3.56 ) > ioatdma ( 2.15.4 ) > 3w-9xxx ( 9.5.1 ) > aacraid ( 1.1.5_2459 ) > madwifi ( 0.9.4 ) > fuse ( 2.6.3 ) > lin_tape ( 1.24.0 ) > > (above are updated versions of in-kernel drivers > that we need for given hardware ) > > If you want to take these into SL, please feel free > (just rebuilding SRPMS found at > http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/extras/SRPMS/ > with --define "dist .SL" will give you 'SL'ized packages) > > Please note that following modules cannot be shipped > that way: > > openafs > nvidia > fglrx > > - all use symbols outside of RHEL 5 'stable kernel ABI' > > We use the Driver Update Program (http://dup.et.redhat.com/) > packaging at CERN since few months and it works very well > for us. > > Jarek > I can start by putting them into contrib, and then migrate them into the main release. But let's start with contrib and work from there. This would only by for SL 5 correct? And which yum plugin works with these kernel modules? And, is this going to still work with SL6 (RHEL6)? I know it's not out yet, but does anyone have any good guesses. Troy p.s. Does this actually fix the XFS, and other related problems? p.p.s. I will look at CentOS Extras and ElRepo. But I'd like to start with Cern's packages first. -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __________________________________________________