I''d like to switch to your Linux-2.6.18 kernel for Domain-0 on some HP DL160G5 systems, but the tg3 driver you''re currently including lacks support for the onboard gigabit ethernets (Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722). It was added later: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commit;h=126a336822a6594662f5898f1ddf33e6d048fcc7 I wonder if it is possible to backport the driver and include it in some future versions of your support tarball? Gentoo folks included an updated driver in their 2.6.21-xen sources, but I don''t know where the patch comes from. Thanks, -- Luca Lesinigo _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Jorge Armando Medina
2009-Oct-01 16:45 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XenLinux: backport newer tg3 driver?
Luca Lesinigo wrote:> I''d like to switch to your Linux-2.6.18 kernel for Domain-0 on some HP > DL160G5 systems, but the tg3 driver you''re currently including lacks > support for the onboard gigabit ethernets (Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722). >The same for HP ML150G5, I had to install ubuntu 2.6.24 xen kernel which has problems with ACPI on those servers, they never shutdown, I have to push power buttom :S.> It was added later: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commit;h=126a336822a6594662f5898f1ddf33e6d048fcc7 > > > I wonder if it is possible to backport the driver and include it in > some future versions of your support tarball? Gentoo folks included an > updated driver in their 2.6.21-xen sources, but I don''t know where the > patch comes from. > > Thanks, > -- > Luca Lesinigo > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users-- Jorge Armando Medina Computación Gráfica de México Web: http://www.e-compugraf.com Tel: 55 51 40 72, Ext: 124 Email: jmedina@e-compugraf.com GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Il giorno 01/ott/09, alle ore 18:45, Jorge Armando Medina ha scritto:> The same for HP ML150G5, I had to install ubuntu 2.6.24 xen kernel > which has problems with ACPI on those servers, they never shutdown, > I have to push power buttom :S.OT: I noted on the 160G5 that if you configure one of the onboard ethernet ports for management it has problems with chassis power on / power off commands via IPMI, and that doesn''t happen if you use the dedicated mgmt port. Don''t know if it is related...>> It was added later: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commit;h=126a336822a6594662f5898f1ddf33e6d048fcc7 >> I wonder if it is possible to backport the driver and include it in >> some future versions of your support tarball? Gentoo folks included >> an updated driver in their 2.6.21-xen sources, but I don''t know >> where the patch comes from.Just for the record, I tried copying tg3.c and tg3.h from gentoo''s 2.6.21-xen to xen''s 2.6.18 and, without surprise, it didn''t compile... -- Luca Lesinigo _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Fajar A. Nugraha
2009-Oct-01 22:14 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XenLinux: backport newer tg3 driver?
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Luca Lesinigo <luca@luckyluke.org> wrote:> I''d like to switch to your Linux-2.6.18 kernel for Domain-0 on some HP > DL160G5 systems, but the tg3 driver you''re currently including lacks support > for the onboard gigabit ethernets (Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722). > > It was added later: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commit;h=126a336822a6594662f5898f1ddf33e6d048fcc7 > > I wonder if it is possible to backport the driver and include it in some > future versions of your support tarball? Gentoo folks included an updated > driver in their 2.6.21-xen sources, but I don''t know where the patch comes > from.Generally speaking, xen.org''s 2.6.18 kernel is not as well-maintained as vendor''s kernel or latest kernel in terms of new drivers and bugfix. That being said, in the past (around the time of RHEL 5.0) I used to download tg3 drivers from Broadcom (http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php), compile them manually to test (the module can be compiled outside kernel tree), and if it works I''d create a dkms RPM so it can be used on any version of Redhat''s 2.6.18 kernel-xen. I stopped doing that sometime ago (around the time of RHEL 5.3) because Redhat also updates their drivers, and they''re doing it more frequent than I did :P So here''s what you can do : - make sure you have kernel source/dev package installed (enough to build a module), download drivers from broadcom, install it. OR - download latest kernel-xen SRPM from Redhat/Centos, and use the patches (at least tg3 drivers part) to update your kernel source. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users