Bug 444157 – x11-base/nouveau-drm-20121015 needs patching for kernel 3.7.x

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Helmut Jarausch 2012-11-21 12:10:56 UTC]

With kernel 3.7.x the flag  VM_RESERVED doesn't exist anymore and should be
replaced VM_IO

Helmut.

[Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2012-11-21 12:47:27 UTC]

A new snapshot might be created once kernel 3.7 is released. But currently the in-kernel code is not very far behind nouveau's kernel repository. So unless things change, there will be little point in doing so.

[Comment 2 Helmut Jarausch 2012-11-22 12:13:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A new snapshot might be created once kernel 3.7 is released. But currently
> the in-kernel code is not very far behind nouveau's kernel repository. So
> unless things change, there will be little point in doing so.

Unfortunately the kernel module doesn't build either

With 3.7.0_rc6  and

CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
CONFIG_DRM_TTM=y
CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y
CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG=5
CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG_DEFAULT=3
CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=y

with/ without
CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE=y


The kernel fails to build with
drivers/built-in.o: In function `nouveau_acpi_edid':
(.text+0x12bf21): undefined reference to `acpi_video_get_edid'


Unfortunately, I cannot subscribe to LKML at the moment.
Perhaps someone at GenToo has a look at it or hands it over to LKML.
Thanks,
Helmut.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2015-07-10 10:40:48 UTC]

do we really need this package with recent kernels? (we are now with 4.0.5 in stable)

[Comment 4 Matt Turner 2015-07-10 18:09:14 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #3)
> do we really need this package with recent kernels? (we are now with 4.0.5
> in stable)

No, it should be removed.

[Comment 5 Matt Turner 2015-08-30 18:30:11 UTC]

x11-base/nouveau-drm is masked for removal.