[Fedora-xen] Why does this compilation fail?

[Emre ERENOGLU]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the quick comment.

I understand, then why do you think it is compiling fine under 2.6.18.8-xen
and also seemingly working fine since a lot of months on my Xen 3.2 system?
(game, video playing, compiz, etc.)

Emre

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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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