Need help

[addeps3]

Hi.
I'm interested in trying this nouveau module but am hitting some bumps. Right now during compilation.

$ make
make -C /lib/modules/4.8.15-ARCH/source M=/home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau KCPPFLAGS="-Iinclude/uapi/drm" modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/adam/bk/linux48'
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/object.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/device.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/driver.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/mem.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/mmu.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/notify.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvif/vmm.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/client.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/engine.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/enum.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/event.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/firmware.o
CC [M] /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/gpuobj.o
In file included from /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/include/nvkm/core/gpuobj.h:3:0,
from /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/gpuobj.c:24:
/home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/include/nvkm/core/memory.h:10:2: error: unknown type name ‘refcount_t’
refcount_t refcount;
^~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:290: /home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/gpuobj.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1473: module/home/adam/kplr/nouveau/drm/nouveau] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/adam/bk/linux48'
make: *** [Makefile:18: modules] Error 2

[karolherbst]

you have to compile against a newer kernel

[addeps3]

omg, thought it was the other way around.
underway.

[addeps3]

we'll close this issue due to user error

have a great day