Intel 855GM: DRM unusual compilation
Steven J Newbury
steve at snewbury.org.uk
Fri Aug 15 03:48:39 PDT 2008
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:00 +0000, Marco V. wrote:
> Steven, Lukas,
>
> thanks the same!
> Bye
>
> Lukas Hejtmanek ha scritto:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Steven J Newbury wrote:
> > > You'll need a kernel tree with either the changes needed to compile
> > > DRM/GEM against or a kernel tree with GEM integrated such as Eric
> > > Anholt's "git://people.freedesktop.org/~anholt/anholt/linux-2.6
> > > drm-gem-merge". Note that I haven't actually yet managed to get this
> > > working on my system, see:
> > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17085
> >
> > I'm afraid that there is no such patch adding pci_read_base into the kernel.
> > The Eric's tree does not use that call at all. So I guess that drm git head is
> > currently non-compilable with any existing patches.
>
You should be able to compile Eric's tree okay. You just need to clone
it, then git-checkout origin/drm-gem-merge. It will probably work on
your hardware, it's a mystery why it doesn't work on mine. :( I've had
to patch TTM support back in locally to get my system working. Not
ideal!
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