From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaroslav Kysela Subject: Re: Request for compilation test - v1.0.25 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:40:44 +0100 Message-ID: <4F1D8D8C.5070105@perex.cz> References: <4F1D405E.50301@perex.cz> <4F1D7F91.2030301@perex.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail1.perex.cz (unknown [77.48.224.245]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF69103890 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:40:25 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Date 23.1.2012 17:32, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:41:05 +0100, > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >> >> Date 23.1.2012 15:16, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> At Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:26 +0100, >>> Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >>>> >>>> The alsa-driver package will not support the kernels bellow 2.6.18 >>>> (released Sep 20 2006), from README: >>>> >>>> - Vanilla 3.0 to 3.2 >>>> - Vanilla 2.6.18 to 2.6.39 >>>> >>>> I kept the 2.4 build code, but it is not maintained and definitely, it >>>> will be removed in next alsa-driver versions. >>> >>> 2.4 kernel won't be built since many driver codes need >>> KBUILD_MODNAME. >>> >>> OTOH, 2.6 kernels below 2.6.18 should be still OK. I'm building the >>> drivers regularly with 2.6.9 and 2.6.16 kernels for SLE10 and SLE11. >> >> I tried vanilla kernels, but there are many things to resolve for recent >> gcc and make - the 2.6.18 vanilla was the first kernel which works. I >> believe that modified distribution specific kernels - which includes >> some newer code/interface - might work ok. It was the reason to avoid a >> hard-coded kernel version check in configure.in. > > Yeah, running an old gcc is nasty, so I'm OK to mention the support > status in the way above you stated. OTOH, would be good to mention > that the builds are OK with the older 2.6 kernels. Yep, added. Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.