Build The Rdac Driver; Install The Rdac Driver - IBM DS3000 Introduction And Implementation Manual

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http://www.lsi.com/rdac/ds3000.html
Download the appropriate RDAC for your Linux kernel version (either 2.4 or 2.6). In our case,
we are using RHEL 4, so we downloaded RDAC for kernel version 2.6.

21.7.1 Build the RDAC driver

1. The RDAC package comes as a compressed tar file. Unpack the file using the command:
tar -zxvf rdac-LINUX-09.01.B5.39-source.tar.gz
2. The source files will be unpacked in the linuxrdac-09.01.B5.39 subdirectory of the current
directory. Change to this subdirectory.
3. Use the following command to remove old driver modules:
make clean
4. Now let's compile the driver modules and build the RDAC driver. Use this command:
make

21.7.2 Install the RDAC driver

We need to copy the driver modules to the kernel module tree and build the new RAMdisk
image which includes the RDAC driver modules.
1. Type:
make install
This will produce a lengthy output in the console window, as the driver modules are
applied to the kernel tree. The last few lines will tell you how to add the new boot menu
option to the boot loader, as shown in Example 21-5.
Example 21-5 RDAC installation
Creating new MPP initrd image...
You must now edit your boot loader configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst, to
add a new boot menu, which uses mpp-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img as the initrd image.
Now Reboot the system for MPP to take effect.
The new boot menu entry should look something like this (note that it may
vary with different system configuration):
...
title Red Hat Linux (2.6.9-34.ELsmp) with MPP support
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=RH9
initrd /mpp-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img
...
MPP driver package has been sucessfully installed on your system.
2. The RDAC installation created a new RAMdisk image file in /boot directory, named
mpp-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img. Modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to add the new boot menu
option - the extra lines are shown in Example 21-6.
Example 21-6 Boot menu option for /boot/grub/menu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-34.ELsmp) RDAC (MPP)
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root (hd0,0)
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