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Friedrich Oslage wrote: |
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> If you own a SPARC system with a qla2xxx fibre channel adapter - SUN |
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> Blade 1000/2000 for instance - you have been through a lot to get it |
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> working with a recent kernel. |
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> Before kernel 2.6.18 was released it worked out of the box but then the |
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> firmware has been removed from the kernel(due to licence issues) and an |
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> initramfs was required to boot such a system. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/qla2xxx.xml was created to |
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> assist users in creating such an initramfs. |
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> Not any more! |
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Bah, and I put in a lot of work to get that firmware loading working in genkernel :P |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |