[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#483650: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: 'Xen kernel' breaks 'nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source'.

[A. Costa]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:50:12 -0400, Len Sorensen wrote:

> I am making a patch to fix the legacy driver.  Not a kernel problem.

About that patch, over on the 96xx branch, your patch is being used:

	nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source: Fails to compile with kernel 2.6.25
	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477643

...so I was curious if a 71xx version was pending.

To anybody, I notice upstream has a patch:

	Using NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers with Linux 2.6.25
	http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088

...but it's not clear from the instructions there what the proper
'Debian way' to apply it is.   On the 96xx bug (#477643) L. Sorensen
put two patches, one for 'xen' and another for 96xx:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477643#12

...where the 96xx patch is identical to upstream's 96xx patch, and the 
'xen' is a general tweak for a Debian nv setup script 'usr/src/nv/conftest.sh'.

Therefore, upstream's 71xx and Sorensen's 'xen' patch together should
probably work.  But I'm not sure of what the "Debian way" to apply
those is... preferably it should be in the form of a foolproof
one-liner that any user can cut n' paste, but no complex 10-step
recipes that requires checking version numbers, deciding where to put
files, yadda yadda yadda.

Pseudo-code might look something like:

	PATCHDIR=/tmp/foo; cd $PATCHDIR && wget <upstream URLs> && m-a <pre-patch actions> && patch <whatever> && m-a <post-patch actions>