On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Christian Zander wrote: > Makefile.kbuild is the preferred Makefile for Linux 2.5, but doesn't > integrate well with the NVIDIA installer. Users will want to extract > and patch the .run file and build/install the module using the plain > Makefile(s) instead (make in the top-level NVIDIA directory). Those > who have previously installed the NVIDIA driver and just wish to get > it running on Linux 2.5 can build/install the 2.5 module from src/nv > using 'make', assuming that Makefile.kbuild was previously selected. > NVIDIA also still provides the NVIDIA_kernel archives (afaik), which > can be downloaded instead of the .run file. whoops, i take it all back, using Makefile.nvidia works fine just running a "make install", but if you try that with the Makefile.kbuild symlink'ed to the Makefile, you get: cd usr/src/nv; make install make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.70' make[3]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause *** inconsistencies Starting the build. KBUILD_BUILTIN=1 KBUILD_MODULES=1 CC [M] /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv.o In file included from /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv.c:14: /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:192:2: #error "Couldn't determine number of arguments expected by remap_page_range!" /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function `nv_kern_mmap': /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1240: warning: implicit declaration of function `NV_REMAP_PAGE_RANGE' make[3]: *** [/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv/nv.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.70' nvidia.ko failed to build! make[1]: *** [module] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363/usr/src/nv' make: *** [kernel_module_install] Error 2 so we're back to using the file Makefile.nvidia, which works. rday
