Re: DRM kernel source broken/incomplete

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:12:29PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:59:15AM -0500, 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?
> 
>No.

Any imports/updates need to address our requirements in this regard.

David