Using HugeMem kernel with FCA2214 drivers

[Timothy Young]

Has anyone used the Fiber Channel drivers (i.e. hp_qla2x00src-7.07.03p3-19) with RHEL 3.0 HugeMem Kernel?

If so, did you have to re-link the driver?

[Siert Zijl]

We use the hp_qla2x00src-7.07.03p4-20 on RHEL 3.0 with a hugemem kernel. Currently we are running on kernel version 2.4.21 errata 47.

The RPM post-install compiles the QLA driver and rebuilds the initrd without problems.
Is that what you mean with relinking?

If you run into errors, please supply some output.

[Timothy Young]

Forgot one details, we have currently running the standard kernel. So when we switch to HugeMem Kernel. I would have to re-install or re-run post-install to create an new initrd.

And if things go wrong and we switch back to the standard Kernel, I would have to re-run the post-install again.

[Siert Zijl · Accepted solution]

If you got to /opt/hp/src/hp_qla2x00src and use the script compile_all_kernels the QLA driver wil be build for every kernel installed.

After running compile_all_kernels, verify that all modules and initrd's on your system are updated.

You might want to use the following commands:

QLA modules:
find /lib/modules/ -type f -name "qla2300*.o" -exec ls -altr {} \;

Initrd files:
find /boot/ -type f -name "initrd*.img" -exec ls -altr {} \;

(check the output on recent timestamps)


Switching between kernels shouldn't be a problem, because you built the modules and initrd's for all installed kernels.

[Timothy Young]

Excellent!

Thank you very much!