Bug 279701

Summary:	x11-drivers/ati-drivers ebuild should not check for CONFIG_PARAVIRT kernel config setting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Harry Holt <hholt>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	scarabeus
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Harry Holt 2009-07-30 16:41:48 UTC

ati-drivers ebuild currently checks for CONFIG_PARAVIRT in the kernel and throws an error if it is enabled.  This was added to prevent an issue that in the kernel module loader in which the kernel refused to load modules exporting "paravirt_ops" symbols.

This issue only existed in kernels 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 for ati-driver versions before 8.39.  Prior and subsequent kernels do not have this issue.

Suggest either removing this option for current and future versions of ati-driver.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile a kernel with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
2. Try to emerge x11-drivers/ati-drivers


Actual Results:  
 * Currently, ati-drivers don't compile with paravirtualization
 * active in the kernel due to GPL symbol export restrictions.
 * Please disable it:
 *     CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
 * in /usr/src/linux/.config or
 *      Processor type and features -->
 *              [ ] Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 * in the 'menuconfig'
 *
 * ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.7 failed.


Expected Results:  
Clean Compile.

Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-01 17:58:00 UTC

Right, Fixed :]
Thanks for spotting.