[TriLUG] Red Hat kernel challenge

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:21:50PM -0500, Matt Matthews wrote:
> I'm testing out some different video hardware on an AMD SMP system running Red Hat 8.0.94 and part of my goal is to get NVIDIA's drivers installed for the testing. Unfortunately, there are conflicts between the released NVIDIA drivers and the kernel that comes with 8.0.94.

This one has been eluding us on #nvidia/FN as well. Basically the
function prototype for remap_page_range changed (mm/memory.c) in the new
kernel source in the latest beta.

I'm not familiar with RPM build procedure, so I can't comment on that.

The short-term (and less-than-optimal) workaround is to revert to
vanilla kernel source. Or wait until the new Nvidia drivers are released
(ripperda confirmed there is a new Linux driver drop last week); they're
in QA currently. Btw, there's a ``make rpm'' target in the vanilla tree,
too, so don't fear losing your packaging scheme. ;-) I might try and
look at the incompatible prototypes later tonight.

-Dan

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