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.

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