KERNEL SOURCE:
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We use the OpenVZ Kernel sources, available from:

http://download.openvz.org/kernel/branches/rhel6-2.6.32/


Additional/Updated Modules:
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- we use bootsplash to display the boot logo.

- include latest AoE driver (http://support.coraid.com/support/linux)

- include latest ixgbe driver from intel/sourceforge

- include latest igb driver from intel/sourceforge

- include latest e1000e driver from intel/sourceforge

- include update for ARECA RAID cards

  * ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/SourceCode/arcmsr.1.20.0X.15-110330.zip

#- include latest broadcom bnx2 drivers
#        
#  * original file linux-6.2.23.zip contains
#    netxtreme2-6.2.23.tar.gz (added to repository)


FIRMWARE:
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We create our own firmware package, which includes the firmware for
all proxmox-ve kernels. So far this include

pve-kernel-2.6.18
pve-kernel-2.6.24
pve-kernel-2.6.32
pve-kernel-2.6.35

We use 'find-firmware.pl' to extract lists of required firmeware
files.  The script 'assemble-firmware.pl' is used to read those lists
and copy the files from various source directory into a target
directory.

We do not include firmeware for some wireless HW when there is a
separate debian package for that, for example:

zd1211-firmware
atmel-firmware
bluez-firmware 


PATCHES:
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 bootsplash-3.1.9-2.6.31-rh.patch: bootsplash patch

 bridge-patch.diff: Avoid bridge problems with changing MAC
  see also: http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&th=5291

  Behaviour after 2.6.27 has changed slighly - after setting mac address
  of bridge device, then address won't change. So we could omit
  that patch, requiring to set hwaddress in /etc/network/interfaces.

 SCSI-aacraid-Add-PMC-Sierra-SRC-based-controller.patch: aacraid update


Additional information
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We use the default configuration provided by openvz, and apply
the following modification:

see config-2.6.32.diff

- enable bootsplash 
	CONFIG_FB_VESA=y 
	CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=Y 
	CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH=y

- disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO

- disable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME

- enable common CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XXX to avoid hardware detection
  problems (udev, undate-initramfs hav serious problems without that)

  	 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
  	 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
  	 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y


Testing final kernel with kvm
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kvm -kernel data/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-6-pve -initrd initrd.img-2.6.32-6-pve -append "vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent" /dev/zero