[Nouveau] Cannot compile nouveau.o in drm with kernel 2.6.26

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:22:47 -0600
Garnet MacPhee <garnet at signalpeak.net> wrote:

> I am getting the following error when trying to compile nouveau.o in drm/linux-core on linux kernel 2.6.26. Drm itself 

By "Drm itself" I assume you are referring to libdrm.

> compiles and installs correctly. I am using the latest drm git. I cannot access bugzilla from the nouveau page because it says 
> it has an invalid security certificate.

IIRC it is just waiting for browsers to add cacert.org to trusted root
certificates, it should be fine to accept.

> root at default:~/drm/linux-core# make nouveau.o
> make DRM_MODULES=nouveau.o modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drm/linux-core'
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26/source  SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26'
>    CC [M]  /root/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o
> In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
>                   from include/linux/slab.h:12,
>                   from include/linux/percpu.h:5,
>                   from include/asm/local.h:4,
>                   from include/linux/module.h:19,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:44,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36:
> include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory
> include/linux/mmzone.h:197:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined
> In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
>                   from include/linux/slab.h:12,
>                   from include/linux/percpu.h:5,
>                   from include/asm/local.h:4,
>                   from include/linux/module.h:19,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:44,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36:
> include/linux/mmzone.h:218: error: 'MAX_NR_ZONES' undeclared here (not in a function)
> In file included from include/asm/pci.h:4,
>                   from include/linux/pci.h:948,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:51,
>                   from /root/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36:
> include/linux/mm.h:429:63: warning: "NR_PAGEFLAGS" is not defined

These look funny. Did you build your kernel from the same source tree
the DRM is using (/lib/modules/2.6.26/source)?
I haven't seen these errors before, but my first guess would be an
unconfigured or never-compiled kernel source tree. Hmm, yes, at least
include/linux/bounds.h is a build-time generated file.

If you are using a precompiled kernel image from your favourite
distribution, you might need to install also another package which allows
building custom kernel modules. This is distro specific.

-- 
Pekka Paalanen
http://www.iki.fi/pq/