[Xen-users] Xen with raid card - recompile? microkernel help? Please?

[Mike Branda <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Branda wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I been skimming the archives of this list and have found a few 
> references to recompiling with the megaraid modules baked in to the 
> kernel rather than as modules in order to get xen up with megaraid 
> controller cards.  After trying these suggestions and even a different 
> root disk to boot from, I'm still having problems getting the card 
> recognized.
> My questions are:
>
> 1.) do the modules have to be baked in to the hypervisor (xen-pae.gz ?) 
> or to the Dom 0 kernel?  OR both?
> 2.) I'm running openSuSE 10.3 and they run a highly patched rpm of xen. 
> 91 .patch files and 42 .diff files so I'd like to keep as close to their 
> version as possible. rpm -qa reports: xen-3.1.0_15042-51.  I've found 
> the src.rpm and extracted the contents and patch set.  I've been 
> successful in doing an rpmbuild -ba on the extracted spec but don't know 
> what to change in the source to get my card recognized. 
> buildconfigs/linux-defconfig?
> I see people have gotten it to work by marking all the following to y in 
> a ".config" but there is no .config when I unpack the source.  A quick 
> grep turns up matching lines in the buildconfigs but so far I'm 
> unsuccessful at getting the card to show up.
> CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN=y
> CONFIG_MEGARAID_MM=y
> CONFIG_MEGARAID_MAILBOX=y
> CONFIG_MEGARAID_LEGACY=y
> CONFIG_MEGARAID_SAS=y
>
>
> the above came from:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-10/msg00556.html
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Mike
O.K... lets try this differently...

Does anybody know what files I have to modify or what options to apply
to add support for a raid card to the xen microkernel?


Thanks!

Mike


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