RE [Xen-users] Xen kernel and QLogic driver

[John S Little <JSLittl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Forwarded by John S Little/Hendricks on 07/05/2006 10:10 AM -----

John S Little/Hendricks wrote on 07/05/2006 08:27:25 AM:

> 
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:10:42PM +0800, Quoc Thuan Ho wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Any one know how to enable Fiber Channel QLOGIC driver for xen 
kernel?
> > > This driver is available in CentOS4.3 as default. But when i compile
> > > xen-3.0.2-2 with linux-2.6.16 or xen-3.0.1with linux-2.6.12, the
> > > driver is not there.
> > > 
> > > I tried to turn on QLOGIC by using "make menuconfig" and modified
> > > .config file but there is no change in
> > > /lib/modules/2.6.x-xen/kernel/drivers/scsi after recompiling kernel
> > > and the new kernel cannot detect Fiber Channel QLOGIC. Any solution?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > HoQT
> > > 
> I just recently got this working with Xen 3.0.2-2 with linux-2.6.16 
> kernel on suse 10.1  Make sure that the qla2xxx driver is compiled 
> into the kernel.  I believe everything that you need is there by 
> default.  Download and install the qlogic-firmware-1.0-11 rpm.  I 
> got mine from rpmfind.net.  If you want to make sure that you have 
> the latest version go to ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/
> and get the file for your card.  Place it in /lib/firmware/.  Add 
> qla2xxx to /etc/sysconfig/kernel on the line  INITRD_MODULES: 
> INITRD_MODULES="... ... qla2xxx".
> In /etc/modprobe.conf add the following at the bottom of the file:
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 qla2xxx
> alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
> (The above is for a dual port adapter.)
> In /etc/modprobe.conf.local add:
> options qla2xxx ql2xfdmienable=1
> Make a new initrd for your kernel:
> mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.16-xen -i initrd-2.6.16-xen.img
> Make the appropriate entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> title XEN
>     root (hd0,2)
>     kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=384000 com1=115200,8n1
>     module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x317 
> resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts console=ttyS0, 115200
>     module /boot/initrd-xen  <==here-this is a soft link that I 
> created in the /boot directory to initrd-2.6.16-xen.img.
> HTH
> John

Oops forgot something:

On the module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen line in the menu.lst file add 
pci=noacpi

John




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