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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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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

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