Bug 63009
Summary: | crc value for register_chrdev is different in i686 kernel | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mark Scott <mscott> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-06-07 20:15:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Mark Scott
2002-04-09 07:41:21 UTC
The i386, i586 but particularly the i686 kernel are very different internally on a binary level. Structures are different sizes, several functions have different sized arguments (due to highmem in i686) etc etc etc. There's no way to do 1 binary for all kernels. The simplest thing to do is to ship the source to the customers with a simple makefile (I can provide a good example if you're interested) and build on demand. Also Doug Ledford has a nice little kit for building the set of drivers needed and generating driver disks. Ping dledford |