Re: upgrade-path to 5.4

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:20:17 -0800
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:05:45PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have two NFS-servers, one running 5.2-current from
> Feb 18 2004 and the other 5.3 beta 3. They are both
> equipped with a qlogic 2310 hba, and one with a
> aic7899 adapter, PIII at 1 GHz (DL380 G2). They are
> serving 8 webservers. Both are very stable.
> 
> I'll have some downtime next week and 5.4 won't be
> ready by then, but will the upgrade to 5.4 be easier
> doing an incremental 5.3->5.4-upgrade, or should I
> just go straight to 5.4 (and wait some weeks)?
> 
> Does the qlogic card no longer require both
> 
> device  isp
> device  ispfw

'ispfw' never has been required -- just highly recommended.
If you've have a Qlogic card add ispfw to your kernel.  It may have been
kept out of the release kernels for size reasons.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Tue Mar 15 2005 - 17:20:19 UTC

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