[RFC] Moving Intrepid to 2.6.27 kernel

[Tim Gardner]

Alberto Milone wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 19:33 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>> Alberto Milone wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 09:52 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>>> Hi Ben:
>>>>
>>>> Not to necessarily be a deterrant from moving to 2.6.27, but do the
>>>> closed drivers available in Ubuntu, the Broadcom, the NVIDIAs, and the
>>>> Fglrx compile nicely against 2.6.27, or will some more modifications
>>>> be needed there too?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>> As far as I'm concerned I see no problems here, at least with NVIDIA. I
>>> haven't tried the new kernel yet however I wrote some patches to ensure
>>> compatibility of the NVIDIA driver with kernel 2.6.26 and I think I can
>>> do it for 2.6.27 too.
>>>
>> There's rc3 based kernels here with headers:
>>
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/pub/next/v2.6.27-rc3/
>>
>> Give it a try and let me know how well it works out?
> 
> As you can see in the attached log, I can't build the kernel module
> because of this:
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> 'pv_lock_ops'
> 
> As far as I know this kernel patch should solve the problem:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/20/316
> 
> It would be nice if you could include it in the kernel.
> 
> P.S. NVIDIA's explanation is here:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1752253
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alberto
> 

Alberto - Ingo just posted this patch in a pull request this morning (it
missed -rc4). We'll get it for free in the next day or so when it
appears in Linus' tree.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com