diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 35 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ================================================================= - July 1, 2010 + May 20, 2012 Contents ======== @@ -79,29 +79,44 @@ kernel config. And you must enable "CRC32c CRC algorithm" even if you do not use header or data digests. They are the kernel options, CONFIG_CRYPTO and CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C, respectively. -By default the kernel source found at +By default the kernel's iSCSI modules will be used. Running: + + make + make install + +will install the iSCSI tools iscsiadm and iscsid to /sbin. + +For 2.6.14 - 2.6.34 the modules in the kernel dir can built and install +by running: + + make kernel + +When building those modules the kernel source found at /lib/modules/`uname -a`/build will be used to compile the open-iscsi modules. To specify a different kernel to build against use: - make KSRC=<kernel-src> + make kernel KSRC=<kernel-src> or cross-compilation: - make KSRC=<kernel-src> KARCH="ARCH=um" + make kernel KSRC=<kernel-src> KARCH="ARCH=um" To compile on SUSE Linux you'll have to use - make KSRC=/usr/src/linux \ + make kernel KSRC=/usr/src/linux \ KBUILD_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux-obj/<arch>/<config> where <config> is the kernel configuration to use (eg. 'smp'). -For Red Hat/Fedora and Debian distributions open-iscsi can be installed by -typing "make install". This will copy iscsid and iscsiadm to /usr/sbin, the -init script to /etc/init.d, and the kernel modules: iscsi_tcp.ko, -libiscsi_tcp.ko, libiscsi.ko and scsi_transport_iscsi to -/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/ overwriting existing iscsi modules. +To install the kernel modules that were built run: + + make install_kernel + +This will copy: iscsi_tcp.ko, libiscsi_tcp.ko, libiscsi.ko and +scsi_transport_iscsi to +/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/ +overwriting existing iscsi modules. For Debian, be sure to install the linux-headers package that corresponds to your kernel in order to compile the kernel modules |