Re: prep 4 sarge 2 etch upgrade; patching driver
On 2008-11-05 22:20 +0100, Mark Copper wrote: I posted 2 days ago on this old, old topic, but am posting separately now to ask a more general question about patching sources. I'm planning to upgrade sarge to etch remotely. The tricky point for me is to include a driver for the RAID card on the box (Adaptec ASR-2420SA). I suppose that should read AAR-2420SA? Etch does not support this card as reported in 2/2007 on this list. Indeed, checking aacraid.h in linux-2.6.18/drivers/scsi/aacraid shows the AAC_DRIVER_BUILD to be 2409 where the later 2420 is needed (and available from adaptec.com). Previously I simply overwrote the old /drivers/scsi/aacraid source files with the new ones and recompiled the kernel. Is there a better way to do this? Should I check later versions of the kernel to see when/if the updated driver entered the kernel source? Yes, especially 2.6.24 which is available in etch. And if I do that, is there a Debian way to use a newer kernel while keeping everything else rock-solid stable? The easiest way is to use a linux-image-2.6-something package from backports.org. Note that third-party modules included in Debian stable will often not build against newer kernels. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prep 4 sarge 2 etch upgrade; patching driver
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:26:52PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-05 22:20 +0100, Mark Copper wrote: I'm planning to upgrade sarge to etch remotely. The tricky point for me is to include a driver for the RAID card on the box (Adaptec ASR-2420SA). I suppose that should read AAR-2420SA? Yes, at least that's what's printed on the box. However, the output of lspci -v lists the subsystem as Adaptec ASR-2420SA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
prep 4 sarge 2 etch upgrade; patching driver
I posted 2 days ago on this old, old topic, but am posting separately now to ask a more general question about patching sources. I'm planning to upgrade sarge to etch remotely. The tricky point for me is to include a driver for the RAID card on the box (Adaptec ASR-2420SA). Etch does not support this card as reported in 2/2007 on this list. Indeed, checking aacraid.h in linux-2.6.18/drivers/scsi/aacraid shows the AAC_DRIVER_BUILD to be 2409 where the later 2420 is needed (and available from adaptec.com). Previously I simply overwrote the old /drivers/scsi/aacraid source files with the new ones and recompiled the kernel. Is there a better way to do this? Should I check later versions of the kernel to see when/if the updated driver entered the kernel source? And if I do that, is there a Debian way to use a newer kernel while keeping everything else rock-solid stable? Any pointers, even if just to appropriate docs, is greatly appreciated. mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
