[elrepo] Request: Floppy module for RHEL8, RHEL9

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:10 AM Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 9:22 AM <chale at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Salutations El Repo,
>>
>> RHEL8 removed support for legacy floppy drives [0].
>>
>> I'd like to request that you all build the floppy module for RHEL8 and
>> RHEL9, please.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -CFH
>>
>> [0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-
>> us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/ha
>> rdware-enablement_considerations-in-adopting-rhel-8
>>
>> --
>> Clark Hale
>> Principal Architect
>> Red Hat Consulting
>>
>
> Hi  Clark,
>
> The floppy kernel module is enabled in ELRepo's kernel-ml for RHEL8. Could
> you test-install it and confirm that the floppy works?
>
> Akemi
>

The next release of kernel-ml for RHEL9 should have floppy enabled [1]. In
the meantime, you can install the kmod-floppy package for el9 [2]:

kmod-floppy-0.0-1.el9_1.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Note that it was built against the EL9.1 kernel and is not backward
compatible.

Akemi

[1] https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1308
[2] https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1309
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