Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:36:58 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rainer Hungershausen <hungershausen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Kernel module with 6.0 Message-ID: <20060113203658.GD47416@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <efc97a510601101410h65a8328fg70098f7a706b93fd@mail.gmail.com> References: <efc97a510601101410h65a8328fg70098f7a706b93fd@mail.gmail.com>
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--IDYEmSnFhs3mNXr+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:10:21PM +0100, Rainer Hungershausen wrote: > Hi there! >=20 > I've got a Highpoint RocketRAID 454 Controller running under FreeBSD 5.3. > It needs a binary only driver (hpt374.ko) to run. > I'd like to upgrade to 6.0 for several reasons, but the latest driver > module from highpoint is for 5.3. > So here's my question: > Is it possible to simply run the 5.3 kernel module under 6.x? In > theory this could work if the kernel interfaces haven't changed, > right? Yes, but they did, so you can't. Kris --IDYEmSnFhs3mNXr+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDyA9qWry0BWjoQKURAtg5AJ9+oQ1d7iNf217nE95EmbsdGVubVQCfVag0 yYEvJshpVcRBtjAhgH3pagg= =wbP1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IDYEmSnFhs3mNXr+--
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