[PATCH v2] Remove info about nouveau kernel build

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:58 PM,  <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, pushed.
Kristian

> 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 &amp;&amp; make &amp;&amp; make modules &amp;&amp; sudo make modules_install &amp;&amp; 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>
>  </body>
>  </html>
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