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This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
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- software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels, as well as provide brief
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- instructions regarding any other "Gotchas" users may encounter when
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- trying life on the Bleeding Edge. If upgrading from a pre-2.4.x
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- kernel, please consult the Changes file included with 2.4.x kernels for
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- additional information; most of that information will not be repeated
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- here. Basically, this document assumes that your system is already
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- functional and running at least 2.4.x kernels.
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+ software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.
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This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
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and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
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encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
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running, the suggested command should tell you.
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- Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
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- functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel. Also, not all tools are
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- necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN
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- hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with
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- isdn4k-utils.
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+ Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
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+ running a Linux kernel. Also, not all tools are necessary on all
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+ systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
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+ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
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o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version
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If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
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ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
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- In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with
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- CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is
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- (this also produces better output than ksymoops).
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- If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
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- you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then
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- you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.
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+ It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so
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+ that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
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+ produces better output than ksymoops). If for some reason your kernel
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+ is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and
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+ reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
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+ with ksymoops.
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Module-Init-Tools
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NFS-utils
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- In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
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- client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
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+ In ancient ( 2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
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+ about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
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information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
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mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup. exportfs
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would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
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fail-over. Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
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getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
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- With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
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- gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
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- export information to the kernel. This removes the dependency on
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- rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
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- active clients.
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+ With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
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+ when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
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+ appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the
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+ dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about
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To enable this new functionality, you need to:
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