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Re: forcedeth problems with 2.6.18-028stab045.1 [message #21961 is a reply to message #21905] |
Thu, 18 October 2007 09:02 |
khorenko
Messages: 533 Registered: January 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia
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Hello Paul,
could you please give me some details?
i've just taken a 2.6.22 mainstream kernel, applied patch-ovz003.2-combined.gz from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download_kernel_2.6.22 and successfully compiled the kernel with config kernel-2.6.22-x86_64.config.ovz taken from the same page.
No errors.
Could you please tell me which gcc version and config did you use?
Thank you,
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Re: forcedeth problems with 2.6.18-028stab045.1 [message #22075 is a reply to message #22063] |
Fri, 19 October 2007 12:46 |
khorenko
Messages: 533 Registered: January 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia
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Hi Paul.
wilf wrote on Fri, 19 October 2007 14:17 | In your opinion, how close to release is the 2.6.22 branch?
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Well, not too close i'm afraid. It still doesn't support the online migration and there still some known problems with netfilters. Probably netfilters will be fixed quite soon, but can't say anything about the online migration.
From my point of view if you are going just to play with OpenVZ and won't set it in production and don't need the online migration - you can stay with 2.6.22, otherwise i suppose it's better to keep trying to backport the required forcedeth patches to 2.6.18 branch.
Regards,
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Re: forcedeth problems with 2.6.18-028stab045.1 [message #22083 is a reply to message #22075] |
Fri, 19 October 2007 15:26 |
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wilf
Messages: 30 Registered: January 2007 Location: UK
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Hi Konstantin,
Thanks for the reply. The machine I was building is for me - but it needs to be mission critical as it will be providing a service to customers. WRT the forcedeth driver, I have simply compiled it out and stuck in two el cheapo rhine cards, which work a treat.
I can't really see the point of backporting the latest forcedeth driver to 2.6.18 as one can always use another card. This is especially true as there have been quite a lot of under the bonnet changes since 2.6.18 to driver architecture WRT pci/irq handling, so making the changes isn't ten minutes work. I spent an hour or two on it and ended up with something which booted and recognised the card, and then died a very smelly death (or should I say deth? Aieee!) taking the kernel with it.
I am looking forward to Linus changing his mind about including only kvm in the kernel, and opening the door to including OpenVZ (and dare I mention it, others too). OpenSource is also about choice, just having kvm is restrictive. The last time I suggested including OpenVZ on the kernel mailing list it didn't go down too well
Although I don't use online migration ATM, I think on balance I'll stick with 2.6.18 for the time being.
Best Regards, Paul.
[Updated on: Fri, 19 October 2007 15:28] Report message to a moderator
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