Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
Am 18.04.2012 04:16, schrieb Pandu Poluan: [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.] Bah! A cliffhanger! *twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up* Ah, yeah, looking forward as well ;-) Greets, Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
Am 18.04.2012 12:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 18.04.2012 04:16, schrieb Pandu Poluan: [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.] Bah! A cliffhanger! *twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up* Ah, yeah, looking forward as well ;-) I don't want to spoil but I got it working already :-P Still looking forward, Stefan
[gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
On 04/18/2012 03:46 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 18.04.2012 12:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 18.04.2012 04:16, schrieb Pandu Poluan: [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.] Bah! A cliffhanger! *twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up* I'm back. Why do I feel just as crappy now as I did last night? Must be the cheap wine, I guess. Ah, yeah, looking forward as well ;-) I don't want to spoil but I got it working already :-P Oh, go ahead and spoil. I'll forgive you eventually. Hey, I just pulled from Linus again and emerged nvidia-drivers and I see that the test for kernel version no longer fails. The rest of the fix is trivial now: diff -ur kernel/nv-linux.h nvidia/nv-linux.h --- kernel/nv-linux.h 2012-04-05 21:37:05.0 -0700 +++ nvidia/nv-linux.h 2012-04-12 06:58:31.0 -0700 @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ #include linux/timer.h #include asm/div64.h /* do_div() */ -#include asm/system.h /* cli, sli, save_flags */ #include asm/io.h /* ioremap, virt_to_phys*/ #include asm/uaccess.h/* access_ok*/ #include asm/page.h /* PAGE_OFFSET */ @@ -1204,7 +1203,6 @@ #endif #if !defined(KERNEL_2_4) !defined(NV_PM_MESSAGE_T_PRESENT) -typedef u32 pm_message_t; #endif #if defined(KERNEL_2_4) (defined(CONFIG_APM) || defined(CONFIG_APM_MODULE)) This works because a recent kernel commit removed system.h completely and now the #include system.h is not needed. Also, any time you see a previously defined error you can try to work around it by deleting the #include that introduced the previous definition in the first place. May work, may not, but it's always worth trying. This time it worked :) Hope I didn't forget anything...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
Am 2012-04-18 15:25, schrieb walt: Hey, I just pulled from Linus again and emerged nvidia-drivers and I see that the test for kernel version no longer fails. The rest of the fix is trivial now: diff -ur kernel/nv-linux.h nvidia/nv-linux.h --- kernel/nv-linux.h 2012-04-05 21:37:05.0 -0700 +++ nvidia/nv-linux.h 2012-04-12 06:58:31.0 -0700 @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ #include linux/timer.h #include asm/div64.h /* do_div() */ -#include asm/system.h /* cli, sli, save_flags */ #include asm/io.h /* ioremap, virt_to_phys*/ #include asm/uaccess.h/* access_ok*/ #include asm/page.h /* PAGE_OFFSET */ @@ -1204,7 +1203,6 @@ #endif #if !defined(KERNEL_2_4) !defined(NV_PM_MESSAGE_T_PRESENT) -typedef u32 pm_message_t; #endif #if defined(KERNEL_2_4) (defined(CONFIG_APM) || defined(CONFIG_APM_MODULE)) This works because a recent kernel commit removed system.h completely and now the #include system.h is not needed. Also, any time you see a previously defined error you can try to work around it by deleting the #include that introduced the previous definition in the first place. May work, may not, but it's always worth trying. This time it worked :) Yes, my fix was nearly the same. I removed the same include as you in nv-linux.h, additionally one in conftest.sh (also including system.h). Worked ok on my ~amd64 with git-sources-3.4.0-rc3 now for the vmware-modules ;-) Stefan
[gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
On 04/17/2012 01:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-04-09 02:30, schrieb walt: I have some seriously ugly hacks for building the nvidia (and very recently) the ati proprietary drivers against git kernels, but I won't spend time explaining them here if no one is interested. walt, would you mind sharing your nvidia-stuff as well? Now there are at least three of us who just can't wait to feel the sweet sorrow of booting tomorrow's broken kernel :p If you build kernels frequently you don't need to install the entire nvidia-drivers package each time. You need only recompile the code for the nvidia kernel module, so we extract (and save) just that one part of the code from the source tarball like this: #cd /usr/src #sh /usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40.run -x #mv NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/kernel/ .--- notice the dot #rm -rf NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/ (the next step is optional, but it will help you next week ;) #mv kernel nvidia A normal person would now do the following: #cd nvidia #make module install //Done! But you are not a normal person, are we? :p *You* will get an error message that your kernel is from another planet and the build will die. No worries. The important thing is that the binary blob (nv-kernel.o) from nvidia.com still works perfectly with today's git kernel. Confession: I know this *only* because I convinced the nvidia installer code that I know more than than the nvidia.com devs know. Obviously a lie most foul, but it worked again! (This time.) [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.]
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
On Apr 18, 2012 8:51 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/2012 01:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-04-09 02:30, schrieb walt: I have some seriously ugly hacks for building the nvidia (and very recently) the ati proprietary drivers against git kernels, but I won't spend time explaining them here if no one is interested. walt, would you mind sharing your nvidia-stuff as well? Now there are at least three of us who just can't wait to feel the sweet sorrow of booting tomorrow's broken kernel :p If you build kernels frequently you don't need to install the entire nvidia-drivers package each time. You need only recompile the code for the nvidia kernel module, so we extract (and save) just that one part of the code from the source tarball like this: #cd /usr/src #sh /usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40.run -x #mv NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/kernel/ .--- notice the dot #rm -rf NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/ (the next step is optional, but it will help you next week ;) #mv kernel nvidia A normal person would now do the following: #cd nvidia #make module install //Done! But you are not a normal person, are we? :p *You* will get an error message that your kernel is from another planet and the build will die. No worries. The important thing is that the binary blob (nv-kernel.o) from nvidia.com still works perfectly with today's git kernel. Confession: I know this *only* because I convinced the nvidia installer code that I know more than than the nvidia.com devs know. Obviously a lie most foul, but it worked again! (This time.) [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.] Bah! A cliffhanger! *twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up* Rgds,
