https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 --- Comment #1 from Richard <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; 2013-10-31 19:26:56 CET --- There was some discussion about this before but I'd have to find it in the list archives. I'm not sure it's really a problem, per se, but there is a major difference between EL based distro's and Fedora... Supposedly (I'm not an expert here) kernel ABI compatibility is maintained within a release (6.1, 6.2, etc) so the value of akmods on an EL based system is very much reduced, you would be rebuilding kernel modules every kernel upgrade when you don't need to. They use a similar method to akmods on ELRepo and use a different (but related) system to build kernel modules. What kmod are you in need of specifically? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 Simone Caronni <negativo17(a)gmail.com&gt; changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |negativo17(a)gmail.com --- Comment #3 from Simone Caronni <negativo17(a)gmail.com&gt; 2013-11-01 10:09:38 CET --- (In reply to comment #2) I would like to step up on mantaining the RHEL branch, actually I would like to contribute to the Nvidia driver by trying to merge some (all?) of my changes [1] into RPMFusion drivers. At the moment it's not so hard to rebuild RHEL modules. Symbol compatibility is guaranteed for the whole life of a release, so for example a kernel module built for the first 6.2 shipped kernel works also on 6.4. Actually this is one of the strong points for adoption of "Enterprise" distributions in big companies. The difference in kABI whitelists between kernels it's simply an addition in newer ones. Every point release (6.2, 6.3, 6.4, ecc.) they add new kernel symbols that you can use in addition to the previous one, but you're not required to. As a general rule of thumb, you could rebuild the kernel module for the "base" kernel of each point release. Personally, considering the rapid pace of Nvidia driver releases, one could probably just build for the most recent "base" kernel at the moment the drivers are released. And this means keeping up to date with RHEL kernels only once every 6/7 months. Not a big deal at all. For example, my current Nvidia kernel module requires 2.6.32-358.el6 for building, which is the kernel shipped onto CentOS/RHEL 6.4 dvds. Personally I find it much, much more easier to build and ship kernel modules for RHEL/CentOS than it is for Fedora. The effort and time required is not even comparable. [1] http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/ Example on the kernel module: $ rpm -qp --requires kmod-nvidia-319.60-1.el6.x86_64.rpm rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 nvidia-driver = 2:319.60 /sbin/depmod /sbin/depmod /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 kernel(__bitmap_weight) = 0x4cbbd171 kernel(__const_udelay) = 0xeae3dfd6 kernel(__get_free_pages) = 0x93fca811 kernel(__init_waitqueue_head) = 0xffc7c184 kernel(__kmalloc) = 0x5a34a45c kernel(__pci_register_driver) = 0x5f07b9f3 kernel(__per_cpu_offset) = 0x32047ad5 kernel(__phys_addr) = 0xe52947e7 kernel(__register_chrdev) = 0xfa0d49c7 kernel(__release_region) = 0x7c61340c kernel(__request_region) = 0x1fedf0f4 kernel(__stack_chk_fail) = 0xf0fdf6cb kernel(__tasklet_schedule) = 0xf397b9aa kernel(__tracepoint_module_get) = 0xacdeb154 kernel(__udelay) = 0x9e7d6bd0 kernel(__unregister_chrdev) = 0x6bc3fbc0 kernel(__vmalloc) = 0xa9bd2676 kernel(__wake_up) = 0x642e54ac kernel(_ctype) = 0x8d3894f2 kernel(_spin_lock_irqsave) = 0x712aa29b kernel(_spin_unlock_irqrestore) = 0x4b07e779 kernel(acpi_bus_get_device) = 0xd1f441a2 kernel(acpi_bus_register_driver) = 0x65bda36d kernel(acpi_bus_unregister_driver) = 0x1117e6cb kernel(acpi_evaluate_integer) = 0x285135e6 kernel(acpi_evaluate_object) = 0x9ea28ec7 kernel(acpi_get_handle) = 0x2bfeb410 kernel(acpi_install_notify_handler) = 0xd9091363 kernel(acpi_os_wait_events_complete) = 0xc9ab2eef kernel(acpi_remove_notify_handler) = 0x2bb55d6e kernel(acpi_walk_namespace) = 0x19d5d20a kernel(acquire_console_sem) = 0xf174ed48 kernel(bad_dma_address) = 0x1675606f kernel(boot_cpu_data) = 0xdd822018 kernel(capable) = 0x7dceceac kernel(complete) = 0xe456bd3a kernel(copy_from_user) = 0x3302b500 kernel(copy_to_user) = 0x85f8a266 kernel(cpu_present_mask) = 0x0e81f0e4 kernel(cpufreq_get) = 0x9305f8e6 kernel(create_proc_entry) = 0x6d6b15ff kernel(del_timer_sync) = 0x0e83fea1 kernel(dev_get_drvdata) = 0x0a92a43c kernel(dev_set_drvdata) = 0xd2037915 kernel(dma_ops) = 0x6e9681d2 kernel(do_gettimeofday) = 0x1d2e87c6 kernel(down) = 0x748caf40 kernel(down_read) = 0xb4b0ee4e kernel(down_trylock) = 0x150853cf kernel(efi_enabled) = 0x0933aae1 kernel(flush_scheduled_work) = 0x00801678 kernel(free_irq) = 0xf20dabd8 kernel(free_pages) = 0x4302d0eb kernel(get_user_pages) = 0x6e293b8e kernel(i2c_add_adapter) = 0x0bcdb1c0 kernel(i2c_del_adapter) = 0x02ba2da5 kernel(init_timer_key) = 0x6a9f26c9 kernel(iomem_resource) = 0x69a358a6 kernel(ioremap_cache) = 0x068c7263 kernel(ioremap_nocache) = 0x42c8de35 kernel(ioremap_wc) = 0x1e0c2be4 kernel(iounmap) = 0xedc03953 kernel(jiffies) = 0x7d11c268 kernel(kfree) = 0x037a0cba kernel(kmem_cache_alloc) = 0xee065ced kernel(kmem_cache_alloc_trace) = 0x2044fa9e kernel(kmem_cache_create) = 0xe4a639f8 kernel(kmem_cache_destroy) = 0x806e575f kernel(kmem_cache_free) = 0x7329e40d kernel(local_bh_disable) = 0x3ff62317 kernel(local_bh_enable) = 0x0799aca4 kernel(malloc_sizes) = 0xd691cba2 kernel(mcount) = 0xb4390f9a kernel(memcpy) = 0x236c8c64 kernel(memset) = 0xde0bdcff kernel(mod_timer) = 0x45450063 kernel(module_layout) = 0x14522340 kernel(module_put) = 0xcbd81171 kernel(nr_cpu_ids) = 0xfe7c4287 kernel(num_physpages) = 0x0948cde9 kernel(on_each_cpu) = 0xc33f6f4c kernel(param_get_charp) = 0x41344088 kernel(param_get_int) = 0x6980fe91 kernel(param_set_charp) = 0x6ad065f4 kernel(param_set_int) = 0xff964b25 kernel(pci_bus_read_config_byte) = 0xc917223d kernel(pci_bus_read_config_dword) = 0xc5aa6d66 kernel(pci_bus_read_config_word) = 0x84b453e6 kernel(pci_bus_write_config_byte) = 0x4d7d27b8 kernel(pci_bus_write_config_dword) = 0xae290fb6 kernel(pci_bus_write_config_word) = 0x1f31615f kernel(pci_dev_put) = 0x17e4ac4c kernel(pci_disable_device) = 0x00a30682 kernel(pci_disable_msi) = 0x94a8242d kernel(pci_enable_device) = 0xa12add91 kernel(pci_enable_msi_block) = 0x6a7a886b kernel(pci_get_class) = 0x4c79d1af kernel(pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot) = 0x541c9e7e kernel(pci_set_master) = 0xaf559063 kernel(pci_unregister_driver) = 0x68f7c535 kernel(per_cpu__cpu_number) = 0x9629486a kernel(per_cpu__current_task) = 0x4f1939c7 kernel(per_cpu__kernel_stack) = 0x6dcaeb88 kernel(printk) = 0xea147363 kernel(proc_create_data) = 0x52683e38 kernel(put_page) = 0x72b295a3 kernel(pv_cpu_ops) = 0x27f96468 kernel(pv_irq_ops) = 0x78764f4e kernel(pv_mmu_ops) = 0x897a5a81 kernel(register_cpu_notifier) = 0x4550ba8a kernel(release_console_sem) = 0x434fa55c kernel(remap_pfn_range) = 0xc911f7f0 kernel(remove_proc_entry) = 0x1a6d6e4f kernel(request_threaded_irq) = 0x859c6dc7 kernel(schedule_timeout) = 0xd62c833f kernel(schedule_work) = 0xa28e76e6 kernel(screen_info) = 0xdc873a70 kernel(seq_lseek) = 0x5ca8e4f6 kernel(seq_printf) = 0x77e93f6f kernel(seq_puts) = 0x96461b6f kernel(seq_read) = 0xb72ec8a3 kernel(set_memory_array_uc) = 0xa350a8f8 kernel(set_memory_array_wb) = 0x64eae7ad kernel(set_memory_uc) = 0xab65ed80 kernel(set_memory_wb) = 0x91607d95 kernel(set_page_dirty_lock) = 0x4ce05e28 kernel(sg_init_table) = 0xc897c382 kernel(sg_next) = 0x3fec048f kernel(simple_strtoul) = 0x20000329 kernel(single_open) = 0x7ca65271 kernel(single_release) = 0xc1d878fa kernel(smp_call_function) = 0x56f494e0 kernel(snprintf) = 0x9edbecae kernel(strcat) = 0x061651be kernel(strchr) = 0x349cba85 kernel(strcmp) = 0xe2d5255a kernel(strcpy) = 0xe914e41e kernel(strlen) = 0x25ec1b28 kernel(strsep) = 0x85df9b6c kernel(strstr) = 0x1e6d26a8 kernel(tasklet_init) = 0xa5808bbf kernel(tasklet_kill) = 0x79ad224b kernel(unregister_cpu_notifier) = 0x74cc1cbe kernel(up) = 0x3f1899f1 kernel(up_read) = 0xe23d7acb kernel(vfree) = 0x999e8297 kernel(vga_set_legacy_decoding) = 0x3c8d32ba kernel(vga_tryget) = 0x9ce60941 kernel(vm_insert_page) = 0x44986362 kernel(vmap) = 0x823e5df1 kernel(vsnprintf) = 0x35b0650f kernel(vunmap) = 0x94961283 kernel(wait_for_completion) = 0x1cefe352 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 -- Configure bugmail: 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https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 --- Comment #5 from Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt; 2013-11-01 16:00:06 CET --- You can add me as a co-maintainer for Fedora and EPEL as well - orion. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 --- Comment #7 from Richard <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; 2013-11-01 19:03:11 CET --- (In reply to comment #6) I was speaking to the akmods utility package only, I don't own any kmod packages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 --- Comment #9 from Richard <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; 2013-11-01 19:18:19 CET --- I assumed you were including the akmods utility in the discussion since that's the currently assigned component for this bug. At this point I think the discussion should be moved to the rpmfusion developer list. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 --- Comment #11 from Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com&gt; 2013-11-06 22:49:15 CET --- or even not dependency at all except the kvarriant -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681 leigh scott <leigh123linux(a)gmail.com&gt; changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |leigh123linux(a)gmail.com Component|akmods |akmods Version|unspecified |6 Product|Fedora |Fedora EPEL -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.