As an active member of the Linux community, SteelEye Technology Inc. is committed to working with organizations and other vendors to help make Linux a key part of business computing environments. SteelEye contributes to the Linux community by participating in industry organizations and providing contributions to the Linux open source efforts.

SteelEye's most significant contributions are modifications and enhancements to the Linux kernel, primarily to improve its high availability. SteelEye developed these patches to enable LifeKeeper to support an enterprise-quality storage solution on Linux, and now makes these patches available to the open source community to further the development of eBusiness, enterprise-ready solutions for Linux.

All of the kernel source and patches published on these web pages are released under the GNU Public License.

The types of kernel patches provided here fall broadly into two categories:

These are changes which cannot take effect without a re-compilation of the entire Linux kernel. Our changes in this area have all been picked up by the Operating System vendors whom we support. You would only need to apply these changes if you have replaced the kernel the Operating System vendor delivered with an unmodified one from the Linux kernel site.

These are changes which affect only loadable modules within the kernel. SteelEye usually delivers these modules in binary form for a wide range of supported kernels. Again if you have replaced the kernel delivered by the Operating System vendor with one from the Linux kernel site, then you will need to apply these patches.