[linux-audio-user] Patch-2.6.20-rt8 and Nvidia Drivers

[Thomas Kuther]

On Mo, 12.03.07 17:22 "Reuben Martin" <reuben.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe only the migration helpers patch is needed for the legacy
> 96** series.
> 

Yes, the kmem_cache_t removal patch is not important. The new 9755
driver doesn't need to be patched at all.

Tom


> On 3/12/07, Thomas Kuther <gimpel at sonnenkinder.org> wrote:
> > On Mo, 12.03.07 19:00 David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il> wrote:
> >
> > > At least the 9631 version of the Nvidia video driver did not
> > > compile after the patch was applied and the kernel successfully
> > > build and booted. Same would definitely hold for older Nvidia
> > > versions and possibly newer ones as well.
> > >
> > > Problem: A bunch of obseleted #define SA_..... entries
> > > in the linux source/include/linux/interrupt.h
> > >
> > > They say do not use in newer code but Nvidia does need them.
> > >
> > > Solution: Copy these from an older or unpatched version of this
> > > file and then paste into the new one. One need not rebuild the
> > > kernel since these are no longer used there. After do this,
> > > Nvidia will build and run fine (so far).
> >
> > Don't "fix" the kernel, but fix the drivers ;)
> > Patches for 9746 driver attached.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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