Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-03 and NVidia wierdness, with workaround... | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:03:31 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:19 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:26 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > (Yes, I know NVidia is evil and all that.. If you're not Ingo or NVidia, > > consider this "documenting the workaround" ;) > > > > For reasons I can't explain, the NVidia module won't initialize > > correctly with V0-0.7.33-03 if built with CONFIG_SPINLOCK_BKL. It however > > works fine with CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL, changing nothing else in the config. > > It also works fine with 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 without Ingo's patch. > > You were able to get the NVidia driver to work? Most of my machines have > the NVidia card (yes evil, but I like them) and I haven't been able to > get them to work on the rc3-mm1 (and a few earlier). Grant you, I didn't > try hard, but I did try a little on V0.7.33-0, and gave up later. >
Update: I just tried some of my fixes to the rc3-mm1 kernel, and that worked without a problem. But I still didn't get by the sleep problem in Ingo's RT patch. Did you get further, and did you make fixes to both the nvidia module as well as the kernel?
> How did you get by the... > > 1) pgd_offset_k_is_obsolete (not too hard, just a few patches for me) > 2) class_simple_create and friends going to GPL (I just removed the GPL > from my code) > 3) for Ingo's patches only, the might_sleep in the os_interface section. > having interrupts turned off. (here's where mine failed, I tried saving > and restoring them, turning them on that is, backwards from the normal > local_irq_save, and it would just be unstable here). > > Do you have it working for the 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 without Ingo's patches? > > Thanks, > > -- Steve > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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