This is the recipe for building the DisplayLink driver in a RPM package for Fedora and CentOS. This driver supports the following device families:

• DL-6xxx
• DL-5xxx
• DL-41xx
• DL-3xxx

The package includes the Open Source evdi library.

Packages get automatically built by Travis CI and get uploaded to GitHub releases.

In order to compile the driver, just use make. The Makefile should download the file for you.

The easiest way to contribute with the package is to fork it and send a pull request in GitHub.

There are two main kind of contributions: either a new upstream version is released or a modification in the packaging is proposed.

There is a variable called RELEASE for packaging purposes. That variable should be set to 1 when contributing a new upstream version release, and incremented in one when adding any other functionality to the specfile for the same upstream version.

From time to time, DisplayLink will update their driver. We try to do so, but for that we usually rely on pull requests.

We manage three different upstream numbers for versioning:

1. evdi kernel driver version
2. DisplayLinkManager daemon and libraries version
3. Download ID number from DisplayLink (for automatic zip retrieval)

These variables need to be changed in the following places:

• Makefile
  • DAEMON_VERSION is the DisplayLinkManager version
  • VERSION is currently the evdi driver version
  • DOWNLOAD_ID is the ?download_id= query parameter in DisplayLink website to download the zip
• .travis.yml
  • VERSION is the same as in the Makefile
  • DAEMON_VERSION is the same version as in Makefile

Also, please update the changelog at the bottom of the displaylink.spec file.

When changing a packaging rule, please increment the RELEASE variable by one in both displaylink.spec and .travis.yml (so that Travis can release the new artifact automatically).