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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Install ATI's fglrx Catalyst 8.8 Driver (v 8.522) on Linux 2.6.27

The Linux kernel 2.6.27 has changed an API (smp_call_function()) that breaks compilation of ATI's Catalyst 8.8 fglrx driver. You get error like this:


/usr/src/fglrx-8.522/firegl_public.c:3080:50: error: macro "smp_call_function" passed 4 arguments, but takes just 3
/usr/src/fglrx-8.522/firegl_public.c: In function ‘__ke_flush_cache’:
/usr/src/fglrx-8.522/firegl_public.c:3080: error: ‘smp_call_function’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/fglrx-8.522/firegl_public.c:3080: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/src/fglrx-8.522/firegl_public.c:3080: error: for each function it appears in.)
...


Loïc Minier has made a patch for Catalyst 8.7, and I've adapted it to Catalyst 8.8:

From 42a6390f599294c60a4960b0a6cd4e399b1a81ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yan Li
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45:48 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] patch for building on 2.6.27

ref: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/6086b1cb7674fc43
---
firegl_public.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/firegl_public.c b/firegl_public.c
index bdc94b2..d85a567 100644
--- a/firegl_public.c
+++ b/firegl_public.c
@@ -202,6 +202,13 @@
#define preempt_enable()
#endif

+/* Since 2.6.27 smp_call_function doesn't have a nonatomic/retry argument */
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,27)
+#define SMP_CALL_FUNCTION(func, info, retry, wait) smp_call_function(func, info, wait)
+#else
+#define SMP_CALL_FUNCTION(func, info, retry, wait) smp_call_function(func, info, retry, wait)
+#endif
+
// ============================================================
/* globals */

@@ -3077,7 +3084,7 @@ int ATI_API_CALL __ke_flush_cache(void)
{
#ifdef __SMP__
/* write back invalidate all other CPUs (exported by kernel) */
- if (smp_call_function(deferred_flush, NULL, 1, 0) != 0)
+ if (SMP_CALL_FUNCTION(deferred_flush, NULL, 1, 0) != 0)
panic("timed out waiting for the other CPUs!\n");

/* invalidate this CPU */
@@ -4796,7 +4803,7 @@ struct _agp_memory* ATI_API_CALL __ke_agp_allocate_memory_phys_list(
void ATI_API_CALL KCL_CallFuncOnOtherCpus(firegl_void_routine_t func_to_call)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- smp_call_function( firegl_smp_func_parameter_wrap, (void*)func_to_call, 0, 1 );
+ SMP_CALL_FUNCTION( firegl_smp_func_parameter_wrap, (void*)func_to_call, 0, 1 );
#endif
}

@@ -4910,7 +4917,7 @@ static int ATI_API_CALL KCL_enable_pat(unsigned int save_orig_pat)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (smp_call_function(KCL_setup_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0)
+ if (SMP_CALL_FUNCTION(KCL_setup_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0)
return 0;
#endif
KCL_setup_pat(NULL);
@@ -4929,7 +4936,7 @@ static void ATI_API_CALL KCL_disable_pat(void)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (smp_call_function(KCL_restore_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0)
+ if (SMP_CALL_FUNCTION(KCL_restore_pat, NULL, 0, 1) != 0)
return;
#endif
KCL_restore_pat(NULL);
--
1.5.4.3


I suggest use the --buildpkg function of the ATI driver to build packages for your system. Those packages use dkms to build the kernel module needed. (For Debian/Ubuntu flavor Linux, I suggest use the way as described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI.) Apply the above patch after installed the fglrx-kernel-source.*.deb to /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.522/source, then run "sudo dkms build -m fglrx -v 8.522" to build the kernel module.

Reference:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/6086b1cb7674fc43

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