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RE: [Xen-devel] xen + debian packages + megaraid driver

To: "michal urbanski" <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen + debian packages + megaraid driver
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:22:40 -0000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] xen + debian packages + megaraid driver
 
> I'm trying to make a domain0 2.6.10 kernel for a Dell SMP box, and as
> such I need to have the megaraid driver compiled in. I found some
> semi-official looking debian [1]packages for xen 2.0.4, and 
> this is the
> process I followed:
> 
> 1) installed fresh kernel sources for 2.6.10
> 2) instaled those debian packages for xen
> 3) ran /usr/src/kernel-patches/i386/apply/xen to patch vanilla sources
> 4) did "make ARCH=xen menuconfig" at source toplevel to 
> configure kernel
> 
> now, at this stage, I was unable to select the driver I wanted from
> device drivers->scsi device support->scsi lowlevel drivers. Normally,
> this is where one finds the megaraid driver, but after 
> applying the xen
> patches, almost no lowlevel scsi drivers are available 
> (nothing, except
> for "Serial ATA Support" and "SCSI Debugging Host Simulator".

Not sure what's going on here, but I just checked our xen-2.0-testing
tree and all the low level drivers are available on the config menu
(including both the nexgen and legacy megaraid drivers). Maybe this is
specific to the debian patch.

Ian


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