[PL #7538] Missing PL kernel drivers

[Marc E. Fiuczynski via RT]

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       Requestor: daniel51 at cs.huji.ac.il
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Danny,

You'll need to build your own version of this kernel first to validate that it works.  Please use our "build" and "linux-2.6" repository to build yourself a custom kernel.  Let me know if you need further instructions.

Once you show that it works, we'll either need to incorporate those drivers in our regular configuration or create a special kernel configuration for these blades. We should get Mark Huang in on this discussion, as he has definite reasons for not tunring on various drivers in our kernel.

Marc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-community-bounces at planet-lab.org
> [mailto:devel-community-bounces at planet-lab.org]On Behalf Of Danny
> Bickson via RT
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:43 AM
> Subject: [PL #7538] Missing PL kernel drivers 
> 
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>        Requestor: daniel51 at cs.huji.ac.il
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> ==================================================
> 
> Wed Sep 21 05:42:35 2005: Request 7538 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by daniel51 at cs.huji.ac.il
> 
> Subject: Missing PL kernel drivers
> 
> Due to Mark's request, I am forwarding this into devel mailing list.
> 
> While trying to install the PlanetLab OS on an IBM BladeCenter HS20,
> We are missing some of the blades drives in the kernel, for example
> USB ACPI and pci_hotswap. Is there a way we can rebuild the 
> kernel with additional
> drivers?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Danny Bickson
>  Graduate Student,
>  School of Computer Science and Engineering, HUJI
>  Cell: +972-545-487421
>  Lab:  +972-2-6585706
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Aaron Klingaman wrote:
> >
> > > The BootManager currently doesn't do any usb module loading/detecting
> > > for the chain booted kernel, so currently no usb devices are supported
> > > post-boot cd.
> > >
> > > So a work around would be manually editing /etc/modprobe.conf on an
> > > installed node to add the appropriate usb hid modules, but of course,
> > > this would have to be done at every install.
> > >
> > > The correct fix is to update the BootManager to identify/load 
> usb drivers.
> > >
> > > ak
> > >
> > > Danny Bickson wrote:
> > > > A question about USB keyboards: it seems the PL node boots 
> fine with the
> > USB keyboard which is fully functional. However when the new kernel  is
> > received from the server the keyboard stops working. Is there a 
> workaround
> > for this?
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Danny Bickson
> > > > Graduate Student,
> > > > School of Computer Science and Engineering, HUJI
> > > > Cell: +972-545-487421
> > > > Lab:  +972-2-6585706
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Aaron Klingaman wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>Not currently - the BootManager does DNS checks before it 
> runs. If it
> > > >>helps, we can create DNS entries in the nodes.planet-lab.org domain.
> > > >>
> > > >>Aaron
> > > >>
> > > >>Danny Bickson wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>>A small question. In belgium we have some diffulties with 
> creating a
> > DNS
> > > >>>name for the planetlab cluster node. Is there a way to install a
> > > >>>planetlab node without a DNS name?
> > > >>>Is there anything special needs to be done in the floppy conf file?
> > > >>>Thanks
> > > >>>Danny
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>On 9/12/05, *Aaron Klingaman* <alk at absarokasoft.com
> > > >>><mailto:alk at absarokasoft.com>> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>    I will incorporate this fix today, thanks for finding it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>    Aaron
> > > >>>
> > > >>>    Danny Bickson wrote:
> > > >>>     > Hi Aaron.
> > > >>>     > It seems that is a (small) bug in the script. See 
> the attached.
> > > >>>     >
> > > >>>     > -----Original Message-----
> > > >>>     > From: Assaf Ben-David [mailto:abenda at cs.huji.ac.il
> > > >>>    <mailto:abenda at cs.huji.ac.il>]
> > > >>>     > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 9:22 PM
> > > >>>     > To: Danny Bickson
> > > >>>     > Subject: Everboot1
> > > >>>     >
> > > >>>     > The setup_plc.sh installation stopped at line 388:
> > > >>>     > "rm alpina-BootstrapRPM.tar.gz"
> > > >>>     > The error message was that the file wasn't exist.
> > > >>>     > I changed it to "rm -f" and the script continued ok.
> > > >>>     > Assaf
> > > >>>     >
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > >
> >
> 
> 
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