[PATCH v2] Remove info about nouveau kernel build
cdahlin at redhat.com
cdahlin at redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 18:58:27 PDT 2012
From: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com>
The page flip code for nouveau has been upstream for almost a year now, but the
build instructions still stated you needed a kernel from nouveau git. This has
been corrected.
Signed-off-by: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com>
---
Last version removed still-valid info about firmware
building.html | 34 ++++------------------------------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/building.html b/building.html
index ff4ac1b..0ca147a 100644
--- a/building.html
+++ b/building.html
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ not fglrx/catalyst). DRM output requires kernel version 2.6.38.
Cards probably work back to Radeon 7200 (2000).</p>
<p><b>nVidia</b>: Requires Nouveau (open source driver). DRM output
-requires a kernel built from the Nouveau git repository, details below.
-Cards probably work back to Riva TNT (1998). The latest series of chips,
-NVC0 / Fermi, released March 2010, requires loading external firmware
-for Nouveau, which is not documented.</p>
+requires kernel version 2.6.37 for nv40 or lower cards, 2.6.38 for nv50
+cards. NVC0 / Fermi chips, release March 2010, require loading external
+firmware, which is documented
+<a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/NVC0_Firmware">here</a></p>
<h2>Setting up the environment</h2>
<p>If you want to install in a custom location (not system wide), you'll need
@@ -228,31 +228,5 @@ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
WAYLAND_DEBUG=1
</pre>
-<h2>Nouveau Kernel</h2>
-
-<p>To use DRM output with nVidia, you need to build a kernel from the
-Nouveau kernel git repository:<br>
-(<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=8e645575d469bf08c9d5d98a101ef4cfce6a9180">required commit</a>)
-</p>
-
-<pre> $ git clone --depth 1 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6
- $ cd linux-2.6
- $ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config # use .config of currently running kernel
- $ yes "" | make oldconfig # use defaults for new options
- $ make clean && make && make modules && sudo make modules_install && sudo make install
-</pre>
-
-Ubuntu Maverick's /sbin/installkernel is broken, requring these additional commands:
-
-<pre> $ mkinitramfs -o initrd.img `make kernelversion`+
- $ sudo mv initrd.img /boot/initrd.img-`make kernelversion`+
- $ sudo update-grub
-</pre>
-
-<p>To uninstall a kernel installed this way:</p>
-
-<pre> $ sudo rm /boot/initrd.img-`make kernelversion`+ /lib/modules/`make kernelversion`+
- $ sudo update-grub
-</pre>
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