Hi all, I'm afraid it's more complicated...
I discovered this problem today as well when upgrading kernel to:
2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686.
Building from nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.8776-4 didn't work. I also
tried a later nvidia-kernel-source. Not the 173.14.09-5 one,
unfortunately I don't remember the exact version. It started with
100-something. It was probably an old unstable package I
downloaded many months ago.
Interesting thing: the later version was built with no problem
but the nvidia-drivers was too modern for my card (GeForce4 MX
440). When trying "modprobe nvidia" it said: use an older version
(legacy) of the nvidia drivers.
So it seems that the 1.0.8776-version is the most modern version
I can use for my card. Therefore, I went through the code and
changed the most critical lines to make it pass the compilation
(I looked in the 173.14.09-package in unstable to get some clues
about the kernel interface changes that caused these troubles). I
didn't think so much about correctness but the changes seems to
work (I run X now with 2.4.24 kernel and 1.0.8776 nvidia-kernel).
I've attached a patch. Apply it before building and it should
work. I don't know about 64-bit kernels though (amd64). Might be
more complex.
Apply patch like this:
cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/
patch < patch-nv-1.0.8776_to_2.6.24.txt
I might be missing something here though. I don't know really if
the latest version 173.14.09-5 supports my old card. Then, this
patching might be unnecessary. Maybe the old version (8776) needs
be maintaing also in the future to support some old cards...
/Thomas L
diff -Nur nv/nv.c nv-modified/nv.c
--- nv/nv.c 2007-01-05 05:51:29.000000000 +0100
+++ nv-modified/nv.c 2009-01-23 18:59:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
int nv_use_cpa = 1;
#endif
-static kmem_cache_t *nv_pte_t_cache = NULL;
+static void *nv_pte_t_cache = NULL;
// allow an easy way to convert all debug printfs related to events
// back and forth between 'info' and 'errors'
@@ -1453,8 +1453,7 @@
if (apm_nv_dev[i] != NULL) pm_unregister(apm_nv_dev[i]);
#endif
- if (unregister_chrdev(nv_major, "nvidia") < 0)
- nv_printf(NV_DBG_ERRORS, "NVRM: unregister nv chrdev failed\n");
+ unregister_chrdev(nv_major, "nvidia");
for (i = 0; i < num_nv_devices; i++)
{
@@ -1478,8 +1477,7 @@
nv_printf(NV_DBG_INFO, "NVRM: nvidia_exit_module\n");
- if (unregister_chrdev(nv_major, "nvidia") < 0)
- nv_printf(NV_DBG_ERRORS, "NVRM: unregister nv chrdev failed\n");
+ unregister_chrdev(nv_major, "nvidia");
for (i = 0; i < num_nv_devices; i++)
{
@@ -1806,7 +1804,7 @@
}
status = request_irq(nv->interrupt_line, nv_kern_isr,
- SA_INTERRUPT | SA_SHIRQ, "nvidia",
+ IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_SHARED, "nvidia",
(void *) nvl);
if (status != 0)
{
diff -Nur nv/nv-i2c.c nv-modified/nv-i2c.c
--- nv/nv-i2c.c 2007-01-05 05:51:29.000000000 +0100
+++ nv-modified/nv-i2c.c 2009-01-23 13:44:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
static struct i2c_algorithm nv_i2c_algo = {
.master_xfer = nv_i2c_algo_xfer,
.smbus_xfer = NULL,
- .algo_control = nv_i2c_algo_control,
.functionality = nv_i2c_algo_functionality,
};
diff -Nur nv/nv-linux.h nv-modified/nv-linux.h
--- nv/nv-linux.h 2007-01-05 05:51:29.000000000 +0100
+++ nv-modified/nv-linux.h 2009-01-23 13:06:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
#define NV_KMEM_CACHE_CREATE(kmem_cache, name, type) \
{ \
kmem_cache = kmem_cache_create(name, sizeof(type), \
- 0, 0, NULL, NULL); \
+ 0, 0, NULL); \
}
#define NV_KMEM_CACHE_DESTROY(kmem_cache) \
