[Openpvrsgx-devgroup] Building the 1.7.862890 branch for x86

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

On 01.09.24 22:45, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi, welcome back!

Thanks!!


> 	https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.9.16/A/ident/ttm_bo_init_mm
> 	https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10-rc1/A/ident/ttm_bo_init_mm
> 
> A usual trick I am applying in such situations is to look for another driver that
> used this function and try to understand how they replaced it.

Ah that site is really useful for figuring out such usage! Thanks!! I 
was already wondering if there was a mechanism to do these kinds of 
searches.


> You could also locate the patch that introduced radeon_ttm_init_vram() by
> 
> 	git blame v5.10-rc1 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c | fgrep radeon_ttm_init_vram
> 
> It's commit message and content may help to locate other potentially required changes.

I was looking at the VMware driver, but probably this Radeon driver is a 
better example.


>> Maybe at some point I can study the topics of DRM and TTM myself as well, but this is quite far from what I've ever done before.
> 
> Well, I would assume this is also far from what approx. 8 Billion people minus 20 have ever done before. Me included :)
> So it is indeed an adventure with unclear outcome...

Yeah, I might look for some courses on this topic. Maybe a site like 
Udemy has something like that...


> PS: I think I have finally fixed the gmail issue of the mailing list so please try.

Yes, I can confirm that I'm receiving the mails on my gmail account as 
well. I think it's all working great now!!

Best regards,
Julius