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Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
Solarflare Adapters on Linux
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# as normal user
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$ mkdir ‐ p /tmp/rpm/BUILD
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$ rpm ‐ i sfc ‐ <ver> ‐ 1.src.rpm
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$ rpmbuild ‐ bc ‐ D 'sfc_minimal=1' ‐ D 'kernel=<installer kernel>' \
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/tmp/rpm/SPECS/sfc.spec
2 The Solarflare minimal driver
sfc.ko
can be found in
/tmp/rpm/BUILD/sfc ‐
<ver>/linux_net/sfc.ko.
Integrate this minimal driver into your installer
kernel, either by creating a driver disk incorporating this minimal driver or by
integrating this minimal driver into initrd.
3 Build a full binary RPM for your Target kernel and integrate this RPM into your
Target (Kernel B).
Driver Disks for Unattended Installations
Table 15 below identifies the various stages of an unattended installation process:
Table 15: Installation Stages
In Control Stages of Boot Setup needed
BIOS PXE code on the
adapter runs.
Adapter must be in PXE boot
mode. See Solarflare Boot
Manager on page 374 .
SF Boot ROM (PXE) DHCP request from PXE
(SF Boot ROM).
DHCP server filename and
next ‐ server options.
SF Boot ROM (PXE) TFTP request for
filename to next ‐ server,
e.g. pxelinux.0
TFTP server.
pxelinux TFTP retrieval of
pxelinux configuration.
pxelinux configuration on
TFTP server.
pxelinux TFTP menu retrieval of
Linux kernel image
initrd.
pxelinux configuration
Kernel, kernel command,
initrd
Linux kernel/installer Installer retrieves
kickstart configuration,
e.g. via HTTP.
Kickstart/AutoYaST
configuration.
Target Linux kernel kernel reconfigures
network adapters.
DHCP server.