Re: [Xen-users] Getting a Dom0 Kernel Version > 2.6.18 ?

[Andy Burns <lists.xensource.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/08/2008 00:41, Anthony Wright wrote:

> As far as I work out the version of the Dom0 linux kernel has to be
> 2.6.18.
It's quite understandable that a fast moving distro like Fedora has 
outstripped the pace of an individual project such as Xen, but when the 
forthcoming Debian lenny will "leapfrog" it too ...
> Is there another way I can use more modern drivers? I'm particularly
> interested in the sky2 ethernet driver at the moment,
I recently installed a centos 5.2 kernel and found the SKY2 drver no 
longer recognised the NICs on a motherboard where 5.1 previously did, I 
looked through the git history and discovered there had been some 
problems with the driver and some PCIIDs were commented out, at this 
point RHEL5.2/Centos5.2 took their snapshot of backports, later the 
driver was re-enabled except in very specific circumstances, but these 
patches were too late for RHEL/Cenos.
I installed the source for the kernel, and rebuilt the module with the 
PCIId re-enabled and no problems
Alternatively you could try the out-of-tree SK98LIN driver, it did work 
for me, but I preferred to stay with the rebuilt kernel.


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