Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:22:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Isely <isely@enteract.com> To: Kenneth Crudup <kenny@panix.com> Cc: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which driver update to use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980609191757.18739A-100000@nathan.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199806092201.SAA28188@panix2.panix.com>
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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Kenneth Crudup wrote: > > I couldn't find an appropriate patch at all when I did this last weekend. > Since 2.0.34 seems to include the 5.0.14 driver, just using the patch > against 2.0.33 wasn't likely to work (since 2.0.33 includes a far older > driver). I didn't want to use the 5.0.14 driver either since previous > experience with it for me was complete breakage (system wouldn't even > boot). So here's what I did: I grabbed the full distributions for both > 5.0.14 and 5.0.18 drivers and expanded them on my system. Then I used > diff to compute a relative patch between those two versions and I applied > THAT against a vanilla 2.0.34 Linux source tree. The patch applied > perfectly, everything compiled beautifully, and the system has remained > stable with this new kernel ever since. > > Why not just overlay the 5.0.18 drivers' files into the 2.0.34 kernel space? Paranoia mainly. But also a few of the files in the driver package were things that weren't specific to the 5.0.18 driver, like for example linux/drivers/scsi/Config.in. I wanted to be sure I didn't accidentally mush anything that might have changed between the 2.0.33 and 2.0.34 kernels. I never tried the overlay; but I wouldn't trust the results if I did. > > (I don't know if this is possible, just if you'd considered that option, and > if so, what happened). > > -Kenny > | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint POSITIVELY NO | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 UNSOLICITED JUNK MAIL! | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | (spam-foiling address) | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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