First off, you can go ahead and download the 1.3 from oss right now. The
"Beta" is actually the released one (if you go to the download link).
The 1.x series of kdb has been rearchitected to work on multiple platforms
including x86, alpha, mips64, and ia64. AFAIK, there has not been a
backport to the 2.2.x kernels.
That being said, we have been pushing the 0.6 forward to later 2.2.x
kernels. 1.3 contains 0.6 for the 2.2.15 kernel and 1.4 has it for the
2.2.16 kernel. You should be able to apply the patch without too much
trouble to any 2.2.x tree. If you wait til I put 1.4 on the web page,
then you can grab the kernel.src.rpm and unpack it to find the kdb
patch. In 1.4, we have redone the way we build the kernels. Before 1.4,
we had the base kernel tar ball and a monolithic patch of all of SGI's
contributions to the kernel. In 1.4, we have moved more towards what
RedHat, SuSE, and all the other major vendors do -- maintain *many*
different patches against a base tarball. This makes maintenance much
easier.
In any event, you have two options:
- grab the debug kernel off of the 1.3 CD which already has kdb built into
it
- take the kdb patch off of oss and apply it to a newer kernel and resolve
the conflicts by hand.
Later,
-tduffy
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Hen, Shmulik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've been successfully using SGI ProPack 1.2 (mainly kdb) on our RH 6.1
> systems until now and got good results.
> Now that we need to upgrade to RH6.2, we need to find a new version of kdb
> that would work on 2.2.14 kernels.
> I could see in the kdb downloading page that as far as 2.2 kernels, it only
> supports 2.2.13 (v0.6) and than jumps straight to 2.3.29 (v1.2).
>
> My questions are:
> 1) is it possible to use v0.6 on kernels other than 2.2.13 ?
> 2) if not, is there a way (simple ;-) to modify the patch to match a 2.2.14
> kernel ?
> 3) if not, will there be a v0.7 patch for 2.2.14 ?
> 4) aside from the above, is there an ETA on the ProPack v1.3 ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Shmulik Hen Software Engineer
> Linux Advanced Networking Services
> Intel Network Communications Group
> Jerusalem
>
>
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