[PlanetCCRMA] Need help getting realtime kernel working with Fedora 8 and nvidia

[Matt Barber]

Note -- you should use the same rpmbuild command, just make sure to
include the patch in the appropriate directory, and point to it in the
spec file.

Thanks,

Matt

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Juan I Reyes <juanig at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the patch Matt!.
>
> Couple of weeks ago I built 173.14.05-2.fc8  for CCRMA RT Kernel
> with:
>  rpmbuild -ba --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686 \
>  nvidia-kmod.spec
>
> No trouble at all. I have not tried Fernandos's newest Kernel yet but I
> will install it now and I'll keep you posted.
>
>  --* Juan
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:23 -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
>> FYI,
>>
>> I don't know if this has been brought up here, but you may have
>> trouble compiling the nvidia kmod (version 173.14.09-2) against some
>> newer rt kernels (e.g. 2.6.24.7-1.rt3.2.fc8.ccrmart).  The nvidia
>> drivers use some structs and functions which have been relegated to
>> "compat" status in RT kernels.  You can apply the following patch in
>> the build process to get it to work, but I don't know if it's safe to
>> use the semaphore stuff anymore -- it would be good to hear about this
>> from someone who knows the kernel better (at any rate it's needed for
>> the nvidia drivers):
>>
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