On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:02:22AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:37 PM, garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In order to build the latest drm/gem kernel modules, > > according to the instructions at www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html, > > the git repository at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel > > drm-intel-next branch > > is used. > > When I attempted to clone the repository, similar to the rest of the > > X11 distribution, with the command > > > > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel > > drm-intel > > > > git wanted to download the best part of a gigabyte. So I set a "depth" > > argument of 2, (--depth 2) after clone, and it merely downloaded the > > source for the linux kernel. Fair enough, for once off. > > Bite the bullet. If you want to track kernel modules, you'll need to > pull a kernel tree. You can keep trying to play games with --depth, > but it will be much easier to just let git get the whole history.
Thank you. I am taking this advice. > > > Apologies for this saga. Although there is much git documentation, git is > > not my preferred scm. Bearing in mind my aim is merely to port the 2.6.27 > > code to suse 2.6.25, what is the simplest minimal-bandwidth way to setup > > and to track the linux drm kernel source. > > That doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but why not just grab a 2.6.27 > tarball if that's what you want to do? How would this achieve the outcome of setting up and tracking the drm source? I found module compilation and installation not excessively difficult. I am having initialization and synchronization problems, but this is nothing new. Any comments on why backporting should not be attempted would be most welcome. Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
