-To build the lustre obd module, you must first build portals.
-
-Portals is available from the same CVS repository of the lustre
-project module portals, see http://www.lustre.org
+You must already have a Lustre-patched kernel, which is outside of the
+scope of this document. For more information on this process, see the
+web sites below. Also consider downloading a pre-packaged Lustre
+kernel and utilities from http://downloads.lustre.org/