kernel modules in RPM Fusion; we need a decision (was: Re: nvidia kmods for EL-5)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 01.09.2008 18:12, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> What's the status of kmods in rpmfusion?

No decision yet. But we should find one soon to finally get everything 
from livna into RPM Fusion -- then we can move users over and IMHO 
consider to finally announce RPM Fusion once we had some users testing 
everything. Freshrpms packages would need to be integrated before that 
as well.

My (obvious) vote and option: kmods and akmods afaics provides all we 
and the users need. We could get dkms into the mix but that would just 
provide a similar functionally as akmods with the disadvantage that a 
second spec file/compile path would need to be maintained and tested -- 
that would mean a whole lot more work with afaics no real benefit.

> I'm going to need nvida binary
> blobs packaged for EL-5 very soon. I'll try to package them myself if
> need be, but I'd really prefer an EL-5 branch of current driver packages.

Kmods for EL-5 will be a bit more complicated -- we of course could just 
use the F9 scheme with small modifications, but the EL-5 kernel provides 
a stable ABI. Would be nice to use that, as that would avoid that we 
have to rebuild the kmod for each new EL kernel. That will require some 
small adjustments to the kmodtool from livna -- shouldn't be to hard 
(and is done by one of the Livna for EL repos already), but might 
require a bit of work to be done right.

CU
knurd