Re: SPAM: Re: [SLE] SAS (Installer doesn't see hard-drives)
- From: Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:20:42 -0600
On 13/10/06 07:59, Carl Hartung wrote:
<snip>Actually, as was very recently explained to me, the U taint flag means
The problem is, when I load the LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS module, it is
rejected, saying:
Module not supported by Novell, setting U Taint flag.
If you follow up with 'lsmod' you might be surprised to find the module
actually *has* been loaded. My understanding is that the taint flag is a
legal/technical warning indicating the module isn't supported by Novell (i.e.
no installation support) because it is proprietary, distributed in binary
form, hence not GPL. If I'm wrong on this point, I'm sure I'll be
straightened out here in short order! ;-)
you won't get any support from Novell if you wind up with kernel
problems, but that the kernel dudes *might* help. At least it isn't a T
flag -- then your only recourse is the module author.
The horse is already dead, I won't beat it much longer -- but it sure is
discomforting to know that, sooner or later (probably sooner), one is
going to have to consult an "approved" hardware database before making
any hardware purchases for use with Linux -- imagine the heartbreak when
somewhere, some kid with a penguin fetish gets a brand-new
state-of-the-art system just for graduating from high school, only to
find out that he can only get support for <the OS from Redmond>, all
because the motherboard has some essential features that have no
open-source drivers at all.
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