<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,<br><br>I would like to step up into mantaining the Nvidia driver for Fedora and introducing it to RHEL/CentOS as well.<br><br></div>I have quite some experience with them and have all sort of hardware (Optimus laptops, SLI systems, etc.) and operating systems to test on.<br>
</div>I would like to merge some (all?) of the changes listed on my repository [1] into RPMFusion.<br><br><div><div>Some are not relevant (like dkms modules, the package rename, etc.) and maybe we could create a list of points for merging.<br>
</div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br>14684264 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko<br><br> 10576 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-frontend.ko<br> 46608 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-uvm.ko<br>
14647616 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia0.ko<br>14650456 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia1.ko<br>14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia2.ko<br>
14649680 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia3.ko<br>14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia4.ko<br>14649144 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia5.ko<br>
14648520 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia6.ko<br>14648968 Oct 23 12:58 /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia7.ko<br clear="all"></div><div><div><br></div><div>
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:<br>
<br>$ du -hs /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia<br>126M /usr/lib/modules/3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64/extra/nvidia<br></div><div><br></div><div>I discussed a bit about it with Nicholas Chauvet a few months ago and he expressed interest into it.<br>
</div><div>Are the current Nvidia driver mantainer interested about this?<br></div><div>Any chance for me to contribute to both RHEL and Fedora?<br><br>Regards,<br></div><div>--Simone<br></div><div><br></div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/">http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681">https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2681</a><br>[3] <a href="http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.17/README/faq.html#multikernelmodules">http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.17/README/faq.html#multikernelmodules</a><br>
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