[Gllug] Binary drivers

[John Hearns]

Following on from the talk about binary drivers yesterday,
here's a prime case in point.

I'm working with a big disk server, which has a Promise FastTrak TX2
raid controller.
Promise only provide an object library ftlib.o and a couple of C files.

I'm trying to build a network bootable kernel so I can install and
do intensive disk tests on this thing.
But its impossible to build a monolithic kernel - modules only.

And what's worse when I put the FastTrak.o into an initrd it won't load.
Guess you're stuck with using the same kernel the Promise engineers
built it with. (Maybe/maybe not, I'm still working on it, probably have
to make a kernel with version information off).

but you catch my drift - what a load of effort and mess when it would
be easy just to import the source into the kernel tree and build




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