What is Suse 9.1.42 ?
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package. When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates? This is of interest, because we want kernel-2.6.8 which is the first to incorporate the 3w-9xxx driver. I hope that SLES9 gets a 2.6.8 kernel soon as well :) Thanks, Cosmo -- Cosmo King Systems Engineer Pogo Linux, Inc. 888.828.7646 cosmo@pogolinux.com
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates?
No, you should NOT use that tree.
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 15:35, Anders Norrbring wrote:
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates?
No, you should NOT use that tree.
Is kernel 2.6.8 safe at least? We're using this with Fedora Core 2 and no issues. Thanks, Cosmo -- Cosmo King Systems Engineer Pogo Linux, Inc. 888.828.7646 cosmo@pogolinux.com
On Thu, Sep 30, Cosmo King wrote:
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
When and why was the split to 9.1.42
The split was made one day after the 9.1 master, as always. It is the development tree.
and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines?
No, else we would put it into the 9.1 directory.
Will 'you' automatically pull these updates?
Yes, but only on products based on this tree, not older one like 9.1.
I hope that SLES9 gets a 2.6.8 kernel soon as well :)
No. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
I'm using a 3ware-9000 with the SuSE-9.1 standard kernel. I've compiled the driver myself, which is a simple operation. Get the source from 3ware.com and apply a trivial Makefile patch, which I've attached here. Then "make && make install". The procedure has to be repeated after a kernel update. Best regards /Ch Cosmo King wrote:
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates?
This is of interest, because we want kernel-2.6.8 which is the first to incorporate the 3w-9xxx driver.
I hope that SLES9 gets a 2.6.8 kernel soon as well :)
Thanks, Cosmo
Christian, Thanks for the info. We're actually just hoping that the kernel 2.6.8 will be blessed as "stable" soon more than anything. We work closely with 3ware in testing their drivers, so we're of course familiar with their source releases. As a Linux OEM though, the method of "custom compile" for a disk subsystem driver is very tedious to maintain and support for our customers. Stock kernel=good when it comes to suppport. Anyway Suse 9.2 will be out soon, we'll probably just continue rolling our own 3ware drivers until then for SuSE (Fedora Core 2 has had 2.6.8 in the update tree for a while now). Hope that SLES9 gets 3w-9xxx driver built-in soon as well :) Thanks, Cosmo www.pogolinux.com On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:24, Christian Andersson wrote:
I'm using a 3ware-9000 with the SuSE-9.1 standard kernel. I've compiled the driver myself, which is a simple operation. Get the source from 3ware.com and apply a trivial Makefile patch, which I've attached here. Then "make && make install".
The procedure has to be repeated after a kernel update.
Best regards /Ch
Cosmo King wrote:
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines? Will 'you' automatically pull these updates?
This is of interest, because we want kernel-2.6.8 which is the first to incorporate the 3w-9xxx driver.
I hope that SLES9 gets a 2.6.8 kernel soon as well :)
Thanks, Cosmo
______________________________________________________________________ diff -urN 3w-9xxx-2.26.00.011fw.orig/Makefile 3w-9xxx-2.26.00.011fw/Makefile --- 3w-9xxx-2.26.00.011fw.orig/Makefile 2004-06-10 21:48:45.000000000 +0200 +++ 3w-9xxx-2.26.00.011fw/Makefile 2004-10-01 10:20:29.997429186 +0200 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -SRC := /usr/src/linux-2.6 +SRC := /usr/src/linux-obj/i386/default
-CPPFLAGS += -I$(SRC)/drivers/scsi +CPPFLAGS += -I/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi
obj-m := 3w-9xxx.o
@@ -9,3 +9,9 @@
clean: rm -f .3w-9xxx.* 3w-9xxx.mod.* 3w-9xxx.ko 3w-9xxx.o *~ + +install: + install --group=root --mode=644 --owner=root 3w-9xxx.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi + depmod -A + @echo Manually create ramdisk! +
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What's the big deal with the new Kernel? I haven't looked into it much but my hardware all works with what hardware I have now. I bought sUSE 8.1 and it worked great, so when 8.2 came out I bought that, Which 8.1 was my first Linux I used, and then I bought 9.1 and I've been happy with all of them, and the Kernels they come with. I use SUSE and Slackware and Free BSD and Windows XP on my laptop, which dual boots with 8.2, and it found everything fine. 9.1 is on my other box which is my FTP server, and then my other box has Slackware 10, and my other box is right now being formatted as I'm going to give Fedora Core 2 a little chance to see how well it works with the loads I hand out on my network. In one day I can transfer 12 GBs to my SUSE 9.1 Professional box running Pre FTPd, while I have Irssi and gaim and X loaded, and it keeps going. Month of uptime right now. SUSE is the best Linux ever, and only Slackware can come close to it. I love and use them btoh every day, and XP of course when I have to do some homework where I need to print it because my printer isn't really useable in Linux yet, so of course it probably will be in the next release. That's generally how it's been for me. If one piece of hardware doesn't work I wait a few months and by then it does. It's a Dell 720 Color Photo Printer. Very nice, but so far only works in XP and Windows 2000 Professional. So when I have to print something I'll use XP for now, and when the next SUSE comes out I'll try again. Keep up the good work SUSE/Novell. Man am I glad they didn't screw it up when they bought SUSE. That was the first thing I said when I read the news was, OK, guys, don't screw it up. So far so good. Heh, has anyone else used SUSE with Pure FTPd and used it that hard without a problem? I don't think SUSE is getting the credit it deserves, I can think of FTP sites that don't handle that in 5 days let a lone 12 hours. -- ---------------------------------- http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.net http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.com http://www.linux.org http://www.linuxiso.org http://www.gnu.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.antionline.com
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:27, Cosmo King wrote:
The Suse 9.1 update tree now includes 9.1.42, which among other things contains the kernel-2.6.8 package.
This is for SUSE 9.2 BETA3. Wait until the end of october/begin of november. That's my guesstimate of the release of 9.2
When and why was the split to 9.1.42 and should we apply these 'updates' to suse pro 9.1 machines?
Better stay away from 9.1 < SuSE < 9.2 unless you are in the BETA program (or what ever it is called, if it exists). ;) Cheers, Leen
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