Hello guys, I promised (about 1 or 2 months ago) that I would post up a small tutorial on how I got DRM complied and running on Ubuntu. I originally meant to post a detailed explanation on how to do it, but real-life got in the way and in the interests of keeping my word, I'm posting this.
Before I start, I want to thank Tormod, who had been a BIG help for me. (He's the one who reminded me to post this). My objective with these notes, is to explain how to download the linux sources from the Canonical servers, show at what stage you can tinker with them, and then compile drm using them. While this might not help you to begin posting patches to the lists, it should help jump-start, on understanding how drm works. I'm doing all my work from my home directory. You will first need to install the kernel-packages from Canonical, as well the relevent compilers and other such dependencies. Ok, after that get the linux sources with, $ apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) Now, create a working directory, $ mkdir mytree Let's copy over our existing configuration file, $ cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) mytree/.config As well as this, $ cp /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/Module.symvers mytree/ Move to the linux source directory you just downloaded (destination can change depending on your ubuntu) $ cd linux-source-$(uname -r) Now for compiling do this, $ make O=../mytree prepare $ make O=../mytree oldconfig $ make O=../mytree outputmakefile $ make O=../mytree archprepare $ make O=../mytree modules SUBDIRS=scripts $ make O=../mytree modules SUBDIRS=drivers/char/drm By the end of that, you should have the required *.ko files in the /mytree folder. Just use insmod to load them up and begin experimenting!! (I recommend doing this in conjugation with libdrm, but thats your call) Now I originally figured out all this from Tormod's post here, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=279628 All I did was just arrange the instructions in the right order. ;) Now, I really, really wish I could have done a better job with this post, but I'm just too busy with other things these days. (I'm still able to follow up on the mailing list, though!) Yours, Abraham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
