Network Workgroup KERNEL Actitivies

We have an "UltraLight" kernel set of RPMS available which incorporate Web100 patches (RPMs are built with gcc 3.4.6):

SL4 x86_64 No-Web100 RPMS for 2.6.30-5UL3
SL4 x86_64 Web100 RPMS for 2.6.30-5UL3
SL5 x86_64 No-Web100 RPMS for 2.6.30-5UL3
SL5 x86_64 Web100 RPMS for 2.6.30-5UL3
src rpm source RPM for 2.6.30-5UL3

Details

This ultralight kernel is based from 2.6.30-5 kernel with the following patches added:

Newest storage drivers: arcmsr, qla2xxx, megaraid-sas
Newest network drivers: e1000e, ixbge, myri10ge, tg3, bnx2
Minor NFSv4 patches

If you want the same kernel with Web100 module (http://www.web100.org/) and support for FAST TCP congestion control, please check out the previous version here and corresponding openafs module here.

OpenAFS modules for kernel built with gcc 3.4.6:

x86_64 MP OpenAFS x86_64 MP kernel module
i686 MP OpensAFS i686 MP kernel module

The RPMS were created with the 'rpmbuild' command. First you need to make sure the config files above are in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. Next make sure you have the kernel-2.6.spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. The src rpm above has the needed kernel-2.6.24.tar.gz file. The command to create the RPMS was:

rpmbuild --ba --target /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

Installation

To install the RPMS use the 'rpm' command, for example: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.24-7UL1.x86_64.rpm The use of -i installs the kernel along side existing kernels. If you use -u you will replace your existing kernel (not recommended!).

Please send along comments, problems or suggestions to Shawn McKee at smckee@umich.edu.