From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:34:51 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:41482 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:34:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF557DF.8020005@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 00:36:15 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michail Rusinov CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: NVidia drivers with 2.5 kernel In-Reply-To: <281539583.20020529223521@da.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michail Rusinov wrote: > Hello. > > Is there any method to compile NVidia drivers with linux kernel > 2.5.18? > When I begin to compile them, they write > "error This driver does not support 2.5.x development kernels!" > Is there any solution to make it work? Please start by writing a reassembler extension for objdump. Or just psersuade the nvida people to provide assembler output files for the parts they would like to preserve closed source. This would: 1. Still not unveal any information they wan't to disclosure in a trivial way (the disclosured information would be 100% equivalent. 2. Allow to adjust the code for kernel API changes. 3. They could claim they code it in assembler for performance reasons and wouldn't therefore get that much unsolicited heat.