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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Rainer Hungershausen <hungershausen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.3 Kernel module with 6.0
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:10:21PM +0100, Rainer Hungershausen wrote:
> Hi there!
>=20
> I've got a Highpoint RocketRAID 454 Controller running under FreeBSD 5.3.
> It needs a binary only driver (hpt374.ko) to run.
> I'd like to upgrade to 6.0 for several reasons, but the latest driver
> module from highpoint is for 5.3.
> So here's my question:
> Is it possible to simply run the 5.3 kernel module under 6.x? In
> theory this could work if the kernel interfaces haven't changed,
> right?

Yes, but they did, so you can't.

Kris

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