[elrepo-devel] ATI driver

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/08/2010 02:44 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 07/12/10 00:50, Phil Perry wrote:
>   
>> On 06/12/10 20:16, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Fabian Arrotin
>>> <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>   wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>
>>>>> As you probably know, we, ELRepo, have been offering the Nvidia
>>>>> driver. It has received quite a good volume of positive feedback. Now,
>>>>> we got a request to provide the ATI driver:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=96
>>>>>
>>>>> One major problem is that we do not have the ATI hardware. Is there
>>>>> anyone who is interested in developing the package to be distributed
>>>>> through ELRepo?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Akemi,
>>>> Do you mean some 'testers' or really someone who would need to write a
>>>> working kmod spec/kmodtool for ATI ?
>>>>         
>>> Ah, yes! Why didn't I think of you?  You are THE ATI guru :-D
>>>
>>> I don't mean just a tester. We want someone who actually writes AND
>>> tests the package. As you can imagine, without access to the hardware,
>>> it is extremely difficult to do any work.
>>>
>>> So, you can help?  We are in the middle of setting up to provide
>>> access for 'serious' contributors to our buildsystems to do the build
>>> work (hint, hint).
>>>
>>> Akemi
>>>       
>> I guess we would split the package in two like we do for nvidia - a kmod
>> package providing the kernel module, and an xorg-x11-drv package
>> providing the xorg libs and everything else.
>>
>>     
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've built a kmod package for the kernel module on EL5. I had to patch 
> the code to get it to build, and since CVE-2010-3081 it doesn't build 
> against any kernel earlier prior to 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5, but the module 
> does weak-link against earlier kernels:
>
> $ find /lib/modules/ -name fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-229.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.4.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/extra/fglrx/fglrx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/weak-updates/fglrx/fglrx.ko
>
> As you can see, I've built it against the current kernel and it 
> weak-links back to 5.3 kernels as well as forward against the 
> RHEL5.6beta kernel. We will probably just rebuild it against the RHEL5.6 
> release kernel once it's released.
>
> One question - what should we call the package? Historically it's always 
> been fglrx, but more recently rpmfusion is naming them catalyst. Any 
> views on this?
>   
what does ati call them ?



> What testing OS/Arch do people have available? If you have the ATI 
> drivers installed from the ATI installer, would you like to test just 
> the kmod package to make sure the kernel driver module works for the 
> time being.
>
> Once I know what OS/Arch folks can test, I'll try to get those built and 
> available somewhere to test.
>
>   
I have rhel6b2/x86_64 and centos 5/i386 handy. I might also have centos 
5/x86_64, but I have to investigate what's running now on the 
workstations used by some coworkers