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hello, |
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I work with a Sun Blade 1000 with a Qlogic 2100 and 2200. I never |
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could user any kernel > 2.6.17. I didn't understand the way you said |
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of how to do that without using genkernel (my case). Could you explain |
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me more or there is any tutorial about it? |
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Thank you, |
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Bráulio |
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On 4/3/07, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm doing gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 stable as i write this. |
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> It has many bugfixes and improvements, off the top of my head: |
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> * Niagara stability greatly improved |
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> * Improved alsa driver for snd-sun-cs4231 (specially for SBUS machines) |
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> * atyfb should properly handle blade 100/150 again, even with gcc4 |
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> * Lots of alignment fixes |
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> * E450 wouldn't boot with newer kernels |
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> * Heavy-load NFS oops |
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> Caveats: |
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> Users of Qlogic ISP2xxx FC-AL based machines (most notably Blade 1000, |
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> 2000, Fire 280R) shouldn't use any kernel >2.6.17 just yet until |
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> genkernel is fixed to handle firmware loading in initramfs. On the tech |
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> side this involves patching a newer busybox with the gentoo bits and |
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> adding the firmware loading mdev patch for it (we don't use udev in |
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> initramfs - otherwise it would be easier). |
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> We are shipping this kernel stable anyway since we never recommended |
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> using genkernel for building kernels so this is a new step that will be |
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> required for those machines anyway. |
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> I'll be looking into getting the genkernel bits rolling in the next |
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> couple of days time willing. |
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> Thanks for your attention. |
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> Gustavo Zacarias |
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> Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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