From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: au88x0 problems with kernel 2.6.0 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:38:40 +0000 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <40072480.8010702@superbug.demon.co.uk> References: <3FF77C6A.4050903@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>The normal way I patch the 2.6.x kernel, is i download alsa-kernel from >>CVS. and then delete the ./alsa-kernel/oss dir, then just copy all the >>contents of alsa-kernel over the top of /usr/src/linux/sound >>I then copy the include directory to /usr/src/linux/include/sound, and >>it all works. >> >>I have noticed that au88x0 driver only got into the alsa-driver tree. >> >>Should I be doing something different in order to get au88x0 drivers >>into my local kernel 2.6.x tree. >> >>As the au88x0 drivers are not in the alsa-kernel tree, the kernel 2.6.x >>Kconfig file does not have a au88x0 entry, so it can not easily be moved >>into kernel 2.6.x. >> >>Can someone please point me to the correct merge/patch method, or am I >>in fact highlighting a bug! > > > It's not a bug. All alpha/beta drivers are in the alsa-driver directory. > This directory doesn't allow to be merged to 2.6 code in a simply way, but > you can compile these drivers as modules outside the kernel like for 2.4 > (simply go to the alsa-driver directory and run cvscompile there). > > Jaroslav > cvscompile or alsa-driver did not work on the 2.6 kernel. The modules did not load due to missing symbols, e.g. VMALLOC etc. and also a PDE error during configure Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn