Re: DRM kernel source broken/incomplete

On Tuesday 08 of February 2005 17:59, David Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:40:42PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:32:56AM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
> >> It looks like the DRM kernel source in xc/extras/drm is broken and
> >> incomplete, especially for BSD platforms.  The Linux version only
> >> appears to build for a narrow range of kernels, and this either
> >> needs to be fixed, or the minimum kernel requirements enforced in
> >> the Makefile.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we'll have to roll back to an older version that does build?
> >
> >I suspect pulling in a newer snapshot would be better, although it's
> >a little more complicated now because the drm has split out support
> >for linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels is separate subdirectories.
>
> Does the build automatically figure out which to use based on the
> kernel version, and what range of kernels has it been verified on?
>
> What about the FreeBSD code?  The current version we have is very
> broken, failing to build even the simplest of drivers (tdfx) on
> 4.10 or 5.2.  Also, does the i915 driver build on BSD?  It is
> referenced in the Makefile, but the required files are not present.

Just as a note: FreeBSD includes drm in its source since 5.0 release and 4.9 
release in src/sys/dev/drm:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/drm/
The current code in FreeBSD CVS is based on 2004-05-26 DRI CVS.
AFAIK Intel drivers are not yet supported.


Dejan