Contributing to the Nvidia driver (RHEL/CentOS too)

Hello, I would like to step up into mantaining the Nvidia driver for Fedora and introducing it to RHEL/CentOS as well. I have quite some experience with them and have all sort of hardware (Optimus laptops, SLI systems, etc.) and operating systems to test on. I would like to merge some (all?) of the changes listed on my repository [1] into RPMFusion. Some are not relevant (like dkms modules, the package rename, etc.) and maybe we could create a list of points for merging. The RHEL effort actually is very limited [2] compared to Fedora and I have quite an experience in that as well; so this would be an easy win. I've also prepared new 331.17 packages that build also the "multiple" kernel module variant [3] for systems with multiple video cards for CUDA setups. The "basic nvidia driver" package for the casual user/gamer requires the smaller and basic driver package; while the "cuda enabled driver" pulls in the additional modules required for particular setups. All of this is also for RHEL, of course. 14684264 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko 10576 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-frontend.ko 46608 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-uvm.ko 14647616 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia0.ko 14650456 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia1.ko 14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia2.ko 14649680 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia3.ko 14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia4.ko 14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia5.ko 14648520 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia6.ko 14648968 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia7.ko This because most of the nvidia driver bundle (like 70% of it) is not required for normal use and the whole suit of kernel modules, if built on a normal system through akmod can take 5/10 minutes to rebuild on a normal system; and frankly, no user should have such a waste of space: $ du -hs /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia 126M /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia I discussed a bit about it with Nicholas Chauvet a few months ago and he expressed interest into it. Are the current Nvidia driver mantainer interested about this? Any chance for me to contribute to both RHEL and Fedora? Regards, --Simone [1] http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/ [2] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 [3] http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.17/README/faq.html#mu... -- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. Emerson). http://xkcd.com/229/ http://negativo17.org/