From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261531AbULQQTi (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:19:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261812AbULQQTi (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:19:38 -0500 Received: from bgm-24-94-57-164.stny.rr.com ([24.94.57.164]:27825 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261531AbULQQT1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:19:27 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-03 and NVidia wierdness, with workaround... From: Steven Rostedt To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML In-Reply-To: <200412161626.iBGGQ5CI020770@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200412161626.iBGGQ5CI020770@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:19:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1103300362.12664.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:26 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > (Yes, I know NVidia is evil and all that.. If you're not Ingo or NVidia, > consider this "documenting the workaround" ;) > > For reasons I can't explain, the NVidia module won't initialize > correctly with V0-0.7.33-03 if built with CONFIG_SPINLOCK_BKL. It however > works fine with CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL, changing nothing else in the config. > It also works fine with 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 without Ingo's patch. You were able to get the NVidia driver to work? Most of my machines have the NVidia card (yes evil, but I like them) and I haven't been able to get them to work on the rc3-mm1 (and a few earlier). Grant you, I didn't try hard, but I did try a little on V0.7.33-0, and gave up later. How did you get by the... 1) pgd_offset_k_is_obsolete (not too hard, just a few patches for me) 2) class_simple_create and friends going to GPL (I just removed the GPL from my code) 3) for Ingo's patches only, the might_sleep in the os_interface section. having interrupts turned off. (here's where mine failed, I tried saving and restoring them, turning them on that is, backwards from the normal local_irq_save, and it would just be unstable here). Do you have it working for the 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 without Ingo's patches? Thanks, -- Steve