Hi Jonás, Many thanks for this!
Best wishes, Julian On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Jonas Andradas wrote: > Hi Julian, > Please find attached the "consolidated" patch as "final-patch.patch) (I had > 3-4 > which I merged into one), in case it is useful. As I mentioned, I used Claude > Code to support this process, and iterated several times until a working patch > was produced. (I also did the same using Gemini, but Gemini's patch seems a > little bit more messy, although it also "works" (e.g. the module compiles). I > can share the patch produced with Gemini as well for reference when I'm back > home, although the one with Claude seemed the cleanest.) > > Thanks, > Jonas. > > Jonás Andradas > > GPG Fingerprint: 678F 7BD0 83C3 28CE 9E8F > 3F7F 4D87 9996 E0C6 9372 > On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Jonas, > > Thanks for this tantalising message! > > Until the maintainer is able to provide a "proper" patch, would you be > able to share your patch? The maintainer might well then be able to > check it and either approve or improve on it. > > Best wishes, > > Julian > > On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 08:50:33AM +0200, Jonas Andradas wrote: > > Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms > > Version: 550.163.01-5 > > Followup-For: Bug #1135362 > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > User: [email protected] > > Usertags: amd64 > > Control: tags -1 ftbfs > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I am experiencing this as well in my Debian sid system. I had a similar > issue a > > couple of weeks ago in a Proxmox host (running Debian trixie), as Proxmox > > provides its own kernel and it was bumped to version 7. Leveraging AI > (Gemini > > and Claude) I managed to obtain patches for the nvidia-kernel-dkms package > in > > trixie, so that it would compile for Proxmox's kernel 7. These compile > and I > > get the functionality, so for me it was "good enough" for my homelab, but > I > > would not be so bold as to presume they are the best patch possible. If > these > > patches can be useful to see the changes that were needed to make this > work, > > such as the ones below, I could upload the file under debian/patches that > > applied to the trixie package allowed me to built it for Proxmox's kernel > 7: > > > > - conftest.sh: detect NV_VM_AREA_STRUCT_HAS___VM_FLAGS, absence of > > dma_map_ops.map_resource, void return of dma_fence_signal, and > > drm_mode_config_funcs.fb_create format_info argument > > - nv-mm.h: handle vma->vm_flags cast for kernels without __vm_flags > > - nv-mmap.c: wrap VMA_LOCK_OFFSET and __is_vma_write_locked for 1-arg > form > > - nv-time.h: compat shim for removed in_irq() macro > > - nv-dma.c: guard dma_map_ops.map_resource access > > - header-presence-tests.mk: add drm/drm_print.h detection > > - nvidia-drm-priv.h: include drm_print.h for > DRM_ERROR/DRM_INFO/DRM_DEBUG > > - nvidia-dma-fence-helper.h: handle void dma_fence_signal return type > > - nvidia-drm-helper.h: use for_each_new_*_in_state iterators > > - nvidia-drm-drv.c, nvidia-drm-fb.c: handle fb_create format_info arg > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jonas.
