[Fedora-xen] Why does this compilation fail?

Tue Apr 15 15:37:27 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:34:05PM +0200, Emre ERENOGLU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody have an idea why the following code fails in the
> 2.6.21.7Fedora 8 XEN kernel but not in 2.6.18.8-xen ?

Because the kernel changes & nvidia is an out of tree module which doesn't
track the changes to the upstream kernels. Go speak to NVIDIA and tell them
to support an open source driver for their graphics cards.

> Due to this, the whole nvidia driver compilation is failing even though it
> works on 2.6.18.8-xen dom0 kernel.
> 
> Any ideas on what's missing in the 2.6.21.7 sources?

Nothing is missing. The NVidia module is broken.

Dan.
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