RE: How to compile driver for ITE 8212?

["Thom DeCarlo" <t r decarlo larc nasa gov>]

Hmmm, I think I must be missing some packages required to compile the
drivers. The Makefile wants to find things in /usr/src/linux-2.4 and I don't
have that directory. In fact, /usr/src is pretty much empty.

Obviously, there's more that I need to learn. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-
> bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Tom 'spot' Callaway
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:02 PM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: How to compile driver for ITE 8212?
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 13:26 -0400, Thom DeCarlo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I didn't find any references in
> the
> > archive.
> >
> > I just installed RH Enterprise (2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp) and discovered that
> the
> > ITE 8212 RAIDExpress card is not supported. I found drivers on the ITE
> > website (www.ite.com.tw) but they are only compiled for RH 7.3 (2.4.20-
> 8).
> >
> > It also includes a src directory, but running "make smp" in there
> produces
> > lots of error messages.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to build and install the drivers for this card?
> 
> Tested on RHEL 3 U5 Beta (x86).
> 
> Just requires a one line patch to their Makefile, patch attached to this
> email.
> 
> I ran make all, with the patch applied (and kernel-source installed).
> 
> This generated four files:
> iteraid.big (for hugemem kernel)
> iteraid.bot (for the BOOT kernel)
> iteraid.o (for the Uniprocessor kernel)
> iteraid.smp (for the SMP kernel)
> 
> I then took the iteraid.o (since I don't have an SMP test box handy),
> copied it into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/block, and ran
> depmod -a. In your case, you'd want to copy iteraid.smp
> to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/block/iteraid.o
> 
> After that, you should be able to run: modinfo iteraid
> And see something like:
> 
> filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.21-31.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/block/iteraid.o
> description: "ITE IT8212 RAID Controller Linux Driver"
> author:      "ITE Tech,Inc."
> license:     "GPL"
> 
> No idea if it works or not, as I don't have this hardware.
> 
> ~spot
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