Sun Microsystems StorageTek SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z, Installation Manual

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28 Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA Installation Guide • September 2009
Installing the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers
After you download the drivers, as described in “Downloading the Red Hat/SUSE
Linux Drivers” on page 27 , you can install the drivers by following the steps in this
section:
1. “To Build the Fibre Channel Driver” on page 28
2. “To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver” on page 29
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To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
The driver installation makes extensive use of the
build.sh
script, which is located
in driver source (
extras/build.sh
).
From the source code, you can build a
qla2xxx.ko
module and a
qla2xxx_conf.ko
module for the host. You can then choose to load the driver
manually or automatically, as described in “To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel
Driver” on page 29 .
1. In the directory that contains the source driver file,
qla2xxx-x.yy.zz-
dist.tgz
, use the commands shown in the following example.
2. Build and install the driver modules from the source code by executing the
build.sh
script.
This build script does the following:
■
Builds the driver
.ko
files.
■
Copies the
.ko
files to the appropriate directory:
/lib/modules/2.6.../kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
■
Adds the appropriate directive in the
modprobe.conf.
local to remove the
qla2xxx_conf
module when unloading the
qla2xxx
module.
■
Updates the newly built
qla2xxx_conf.ko
module with any previously
saved data in
/etc/qla2xxx.conf
.
# tar -xvzf *.tgz
# cd qlogic
# ./drvrsetup
(
this extracts the source files directory into the
current directory)
# cd qla2xxx-
x.yy.zz ( x.yy
indicates the driver version;
zz
indicates the
file extension, which is typically .ko for kernel modules
(binaries))
.
# ./extras/build.sh install