On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 09:28 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 18:57 -0600, Steve Conklin wrote: > >> This email summarizes a discussion that took place on #ubuntu-x IRC, and > >> the tentative plan that was arrived at. The IRC discussion is attached > >> for reference. > >> > >> First, there was a discussion of what is required in order to bring > >> Nouveau into our kernel. Nouveau brings in the entire drm-next tree, > >> which looks like it amounts to over 500 patches right now. This > >> presents a major issue for the kernel team, in how to manage that. > > > > I have been talking with Ben Skeggs (darktama on freenode) the nouveau > > dev paid by Red Hat, who is also deciding what to do about updating > > nouveau in Fedora rawhide. > > > > He thinks that the nouveau kernel module should work against the stock > > 2.6.32 drm tree, so I tried copying drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau and > > associated headers into the lucid kernel tree, the results of which are > > in the nouveau-scratchpad branch of > > http://cooperteam.net/lucid-kernel-nouveau.git . The only changes > > outside of the nouveau-specific directories are hooking up the Kconfig & > > Makefiles, and exporting 4 extra symbols from ttm.ko. > > Which exported symbols are those and what other new video drivers use > from the 2.6.32 drm tree? > The symbols are: ttm_bo_wait_unreserved ttm_bo_wait_cpu ttm_bo_synccpu_write_grab ttm_bo_synccpu_write_release
None of the other drm drivers in the 2.6.32 tree use these symbols, although it's possible that a more recent radeon drm would; I'm not familiar with the radeon world.
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