Re: debian sarge 2.6.11 kernel?

From: Bob Hauck (postmaster_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:28:18 -0500

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:12:37 -0600, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> JGH writes:
>> Hmmmm.... Are we both talking about the scary message that comes up when
>> you run make-kpkg? That message was pretty scary. It even said "I assume
>> you know what you are doing.
>
> You _do_ realize that your disk controller driver must be compiled in and
> not a module?

Not if you use initrd. On x86, LILO or GRUB will load the kernel and
initrd image into RAM. The initrd contains the driver for the IDE or
SCSI or whatever. Note:

bobo@robin: lsmod
[snip]
ide_generic 1280 0
piix 13216 1
ide_disk 20480 5
ide_core 143024 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk

This machine has IDE disks and yet the IDE driver is modular. I've got
others with SCSI disks using the Adaptec module.

If you're building a custom kernel without benefit of Debian's nifty
tools, then it might be _easier_ to compile the disk controller in, but
it isn't required. Once you know how Debian's make-kpkg works, there's
no reason not to go modular. 

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