Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git

[Pandu Poluan]

On Apr 18, 2012 8:51 AM, "walt" <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/17/2012 01:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Am 2012-04-09 02:30, schrieb walt:
>
> >>  I have some seriously ugly hacks for building the
> >> nvidia (and very recently) the ati proprietary drivers against git
> >> kernels, but I won't spend time explaining them here if no one is
> >> interested.
> >
> > walt, would you mind sharing your nvidia-stuff as well?
>
> Now there are at least three of us who just can't wait to feel the
> sweet sorrow of booting tomorrow's broken kernel :p
>
> If you build kernels frequently you don't need to install the entire
> nvidia-drivers package each time.  You need only recompile the code
> for the nvidia kernel module, so we extract (and save) just that one
> part of the code from the source tarball like this:
>
> #cd /usr/src
> #sh /usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40.run -x
> #mv NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/kernel/ .    <--- notice the dot
> #rm -rf NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.40/
>
> (the next step is optional, but it will help you next week ;)
> #mv kernel nvidia
>
> A normal person would now do the following:
>
> #cd nvidia
> #make module install   //Done!
>
> But you are not a normal person, are we? :p  *You* will get an error
> message that your kernel is from another planet and the build will die.
>
> No worries.  The important thing is that the binary blob (nv-kernel.o)
> from nvidia.com still works perfectly with today's git kernel.
>
> Confession:  I know this *only* because I convinced the nvidia installer
> code that I know more than than the nvidia.com devs know.
>
> Obviously a lie most foul, but it worked again! (This time.)
>
> [I'm falling asleep at the keyboard now and I don't want to give you
> bogus information, so I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.]
>
>

Bah! A cliffhanger!

*twiddles thumb waiting for Walt to wake up*

Rgds,