Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:44:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Patching Red Hat (or other vendor kernels) is tough, and non-trivial.
> >
> > In general, you only want to use a patch against the codebase it was
> > generated from.
> >
> > We have patches against "vanilla" linux kernels from Linus & Marcello,
> > and instructions for using these patches are at
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/source.html
> >
> > We also have some prerelease kernel RPMs based on Red Hat 8.0 /
> > 2.4.18-17 kernels, at
> > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.2pre2/kernel_rpms/RPMS/
>
> Note that 2.4.18-17.7x is also the recommend errata kernel ofor RH7.x,
> so if you want RedHat's latest updates _and_ XFS use the kernel Eric
> pointed you to..
Just for the archives...
I've installed the kernels mentioned above on several RH 7.2 servers. It
has worked - like before - very well. The only problem I had was when
upgrading my laptop. The PCMCIA stuff seems broken somehow and unloading
kernel modules of PCMCIA devices just crashes the box. I'm sure the
problem is that those new kernels were built on RedHat 8.0 which is
quite different from 7.x. I then tried to rebuild from source RPM on
RedHat 7.2. Building i386 and i586 packages went fine but i686 didn't.
I'm happy anyway and thanks for the great product!
Simon
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