[Nix-dev] Builder for ati-drivers-14.12 failed after kernel update to linux 4.0?

[Kirill Elagin]

The expression for ati-drivers is at
`pkgs/os-specific/linux/ati-drivers/default.nix`.
The first thing you should notice is that it uses a custom builder. I think
you can safely skip all the details of the builder, what’s interesting is
the `patchPhase` attribute of the the derivation. It is just a string
representing a shell script that the builder `eval`s (line 14 of the
builder).

So what you have to do is download the patches you like and apply them in
`patchPhase`. You should also ensure that the new patches interact well
with the one that is already applied (and whether this one still needed at
all).

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:20 AM Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> I guess I'm willing to try patching the driver.
>
> Can you guide me how to?  I'd apply this[0] patch, which
> is from the thread you linked.
>
> [0]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=402514&action=diff
>
> On 09-05-2015 08:38:00, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> > The cr4 functions should be easy to fix, they just were renames, as far
> as
> > I can tell.
> >
> > Other errors are a little more mysterious.
> > This should be helpful: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548118.
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:41 AM Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > it's common that proprietary drivers fail to compile after kernel
> > > update. Typically it's easiest to search for a patch in other distros.
> > >
> > > Vladimir
> > >
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