Compiling into mainline source not clear

[roadapathy]

Sorry, the how to does not explain how to integrate this into the Kernel. Does the code directory not go somewhere into the Kernel source directory? I compile and install the Kernel all the time from kernel.org but this isn't clear to me.

[YusufKhan-gamedev]

Use modprobe, compile this with whats said in the README then use modprobe, make sure to blacklist nouveau beforehand.

[mtijanic]

Hello! The codebase is for an out-of-tree driver that is compiled separately from the mainline kernel. Simply running make modules from the top level directory of this repo should build all the necessary .ko files.

You can then install these with make modules_install which will copy them into the right place and you can load with modprobe or just by running e.g. nvidia-smi.

This codebase is generally not suitable for integration into the mainline kernel. You probably can hack it into the build system locally (e.g. copy into drivers/gpu/drm/nvidia, hook into Kbuild), but that is something we have never tested.