On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:05:06AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> nvidia-kernel-{source,dkms} don't use upstream's conftest.sh to test for
> availability of features, instead we ship (probably for historic reasons
> where conftest.sh was not working properly) a manually generated
> conftest.h that says
>
> /* Implement conftest.sh function efi_enabled */
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,1)
> #define NV_EFI_ENABLED_PRESENT
> #else
> #undef NV_EFI_ENABLED_PRESENT
> #endif
>
> Anyway, checks for efi.h and efi_enabled were only introduced in 310.14
> and have not been backported to the 304.xx series by Nvidia so far. So
> this only affects the Nvidia driver in experimental.
Yeah I wrote that .h file because nvidia's conftest.sh was stupid and
assumed linux == fedora. Solved lots of problems at the time.
Also conftest.sh could not be run under module assistant with the
linux-headers-* only since module assistant wants to be able to do
a module build, and gives no option to run something else first that
mangles things. conftest.sh really does seem like a crappy design.
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Len Sorensen
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