upgrade-path to 5.4
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 15 10:20:19 PST 2005
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.
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