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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 01 September 2008 at 21:51, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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 all for akmods and kmods (if released in a timely manner).

> >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,

This would suffice for me for the time being. Do you have any src.rpms/specs
ready?

> 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.

+1.

Regards,
R.

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