Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:44:28
Message-Id: 4F8C4BF1.70800@xunil.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git by walt
1 Am 09.04.2012 02:30, schrieb walt:
2 > For many years I've been testing kernels from Linus's git repository
3 > and I find that about twice a year the kernel devs do something evil
4 > that breaks proprietary video drivers. (I suspect they do it on purpose
5 > but I can't prove it ;)
6 >
7 > I have no idea how many of you like to test bleeding edge kernels but
8 > I thought I'd ask. I have some seriously ugly hacks for building the
9 > nvidia (and very recently) the ati proprietary drivers against git
10 > kernels, but I won't spend time explaining them here if no one is
11 > interested.
12
13 Tried git-sources-3.4-rc3 on my thinkpad today, on my main rig it
14 wouldn't work because of the nvidia-drivers ...
15
16 if it ain't too ugly I'd like to know ;-) just being curious
17
18 Stefan