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Appendix B
Recompiling On Linux Platforms
This appendix provides instructions for recompiling the Boston
driver to support new kernel patches.
Use the instructions below to recompile the Boston driver on
supported Linux platforms so that the driver can operate with
any kernel patch for supported Linux versions. The Boston
driver supports only official kernel patches as released by Red
Hat. After you follow the procedure, the driver supports only the
exact version of the kernel currently running on your system,
including architecture and variant.
Note: This feature only provides support for the Boston driver,
the kernel mode code. Other parts of the Brooktrout SDK
(the user mode code) might also need rebuilding, and this
feature will not help in these situations.
Supported versions include:
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES/AS 4.0 and 5.0
The fully precompiled installable driver binaries reside under
the driver/linux/kernel/kvers directory. This directory contains
subdirectories corresponding to each kernel version, variant, and
architecture, with a driver binary in each (named boston.o or
boston.ko).
For each Linux OS version supported, the only precompiled
driver supplied supports the original kernel that shipped with
that version of Linux.