12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
7:31 p.m.
On Mo, 12.03.07 17:22 "Reuben Martin" <reuben.m(a)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(a)sonnenkinder.org> wrote:
> On Mo, 12.03.07 19:00 David Baron <d_baron(a)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
>
>