Will 8.42 support kernel 2.6.23?

[Moronix]

Because I just made the mistake of updating the kernel to 2.6.23 but the 8.40. driver doesn't work.

[Michael]

Because I just made the mistake of updating the kernel to 2.6.23 but the 8.40. driver doesn't work.

Yes, it should.

[Kano]

Maybe better add a poll

[yoshi314]

i bet it won't :]

[stealth]

and how about xorg 1.4.0? will 8.42 support this version of xorg?

[Michael]

and how about xorg 1.4.0? will 8.42 support this version of xorg?

Now that X server 1.4 is officially available, you can expect the support very very soon. If you recall from our development cycle article, since the release happened last month, that still fell into the 8.42 cycle for development and testing.

[stealth]

well, "very very soon" sounds really cool ;-)

right now i am forced to use the vesa-driver, and that's kind of ugly. on the other hand i could downgrade to an older xorg, but i prefer to wait for the new driver to be released ("very very soon")

[Kano]

You only need -ignoreABI option. What do you use KDM/GDM or XDM or something else?

[yoshi314]

Because I just made the mistake of updating the kernel to 2.6.23 but the 8.40. driver doesn't work

8.40 - 2.6.23 patch. didn't test it (i dn't use fglrx anymore)

diff -Naur common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c
--- common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c  2007-07-29 13:36:37.000000000 +0200
+++ common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c  2007-07-29 14:24:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -2409,7 +2409,11 @@
 #ifdef pte_offset_map
     pte_p = pte_offset_map(pmd_p, virtual_addr);
     if (pte_present(*pte_p))
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,22)
         ret = (ptep_clear_flush_dirty(vma, virtual_addr, pte_p) ? 1 : 0);
+#else
+    return 0;
+#endif
     else
         __KE_DEBUG("page not exists!\n");
     pte_unmap(pte_p); 
@@ -3399,9 +3403,11 @@
         sprintf(buf, "0x%Lx %c%c%c%c%c%c\n",
            *phys_address,
            pte_present (pte) ? 'p' : '-',
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,23)
            pte_read    (pte) ? 'r' : '-',
-           pte_write   (pte) ? 'w' : '-',
            pte_exec    (pte) ? 'x' : '-',
+#endif
+           pte_write   (pte) ? 'w' : '-',
            pte_dirty   (pte) ? 'd' : '-',
            pte_young   (pte) ? 'a' : '-');
     }
@@ -5348,7 +5354,11 @@
     DBG_TRACE("creating slab object '%s'", slabcache_obj->name);
 
     if ((slabcache_obj->cache =
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,23)
             kmem_cache_create(slabcache_obj->name, iEntrySize, 0, 0, NULL, NULL)))
+#else
+            kmem_cache_create(slabcache_obj->name, iEntrySize, 0, 0, NULL)))
+#endif
     {
         ret = 1;
     }

found it in sabayon linux gentoo overlay ( link )

[Michael]

Actually I just found out that they may be rethinking their decision to support 2.6.23 with 8.43 due to 64-bit issues...