Recompiling On Linux Platforms - Dialogic Brooktrout Digital Board Installation And Configuration Manual

Recompiling on Linux Platforms

March 2013
This section provides instructions for recompiling the Dialogic®
Brooktrout® driver to support new kernel patches.
Use the instructions below to recompile the Dialogic® Brooktrout®
driver on supported Linux platforms so that the driver can operate
with any kernel patch for supported Linux versions. Dialogic only
supports official kernel patches as released by Red Hat. After you
follow the procedure, the driver supports only the exact version of
the kernel currently running on your system, including architecture
and variant.
Note: This feature only provides support for the Dialogic®
Brooktrout® driver, the kernel mode code. Other parts of the
Brooktrout SDK (the user mode code) might also need
rebuilding and this feature will not help in these situations.
Supported versions include:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and later
The fully precompiled installable driver binaries reside under the
driver/linux/kernel/kvers directory. This directory contains
subdirectories corresponding to each kernel version, variant, and
architecture, with a driver binary in each (named boston.o or
boston.ko).
For each Linux OS version supported, the only precompiled driver
supplied supports the original kernel that shipped with that version
of Linux.
Each of these directories also contains a file named bostbase.a, which
is a library containing precompiled object files compiled for that
same kernel version, variant, and architecture.
The driver/linux/kernel directory contains files named kerndep.c,
kerndep.h, and makefile.kerndep.
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