Bug 618144

Summary:	nvidia-drivers-381.09 does build with kernel-4.11
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nicolas Porcel <nicolas06600>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618216
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	nvidia-drivers patch for API changes kernel patch for GPL symbols

Description Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:05:31 UTC

There are 2 problems:

1. They changed some headers between 4.10 and 4.11, leading to some API compatibility problems. I created a patch to fix that.

2. There are some GPL symbols used in the driver. I didn't find where they are used. They are used indirectly called through other kernel methods. I wrote a kernel patch for that, but this is a dirty patch and I would like to know if there is a better way.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:06:27 UTC

Created attachment 472288 [details, diff]
nvidia-drivers patch for API changes

Comment 2 Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:07:20 UTC

Created attachment 472290 [details, diff]
kernel patch for GPL symbols

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-05-10 21:18:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617198 ***