[Intel-gfx] What does it take to build the GEM branch?

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Fri Jul 4 00:58:56 CEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:20 +0800, He, Shuang wrote:
> Clemens Eisserer ??:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would be interested in testing the GEM branch on my 945GM-Laptop,
> > running RawHide.
> > Which things to I have to replace to make it working, and when is the
> > release containing GEM planned?
> >   
> Hi, Clemens
> You need to build following components:
> drm: drm-gem branch
> mesa: drm-gem branch
> xf86-video-intel: drm-gem branch
> xserver: master branch
> And it's recommended to use kernel 2.6.25 or newer. In order to build 
> and load your drm/i915 kernel module correctly, you may have to 
> recompile your kernel with following symbols exported:
> shmem_file_setup (mm/shmem.c)
> shmem_getpage (mm/shmem.c)
> mark_page_accessed (mm/swap.c)

I've gone ahead and pushed the kernel changes I've been using to
people.freedesktop.org:~anholt/linux-2.6 drm-gem (2.6.25+our patches)

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com

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