[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#470817: patch to restore Xen support in nvidia-graphics-kernels

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Fri May 14 14:08:20 UTC 2010


On Monday, 17. March 2008 11:11:11 Sergio Gelato wrote:
> * Emilio Scalise [2008-03-16 22:34:52 +0100]:
> > I should point out that the nvidia driver 169.09 compiles out of the box
> > with the debian linux-2.6.18-6-amd64 kernel, only exporting the
> > IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE environment variable.
>
> Noted. "compiles" != "works", however; one would need some testing.

What's the xen status of the driver that just entered testing (195.36.24-1)? 
The module builds for all variants of the 2.6.23-5 kernel, including xen, but 
it has not been tested, yet. None of the members of the Debian NVIDIA 
Maintainers team is running a xen kernel. The nvidia-kernel-source currently 
contains no patches for xen support - all patches were heavily outdated and 
did not apply any longer, so they have been removed from the overhauled 
package recently.


Andreas






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