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On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: |
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> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: |
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>>>> I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate |
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>>>> enough |
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>>>>> to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be |
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>>>>> useless. Which brings you back to the previous paragraph - try |
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>>>>> emerge nvidia-drivers and if it fails then don't use that kernel. |
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>>> I was unclear to the point of being misleading. I'm sorry. |
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>>> The wiki idea is only for a page which tells which |
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>>> kernel/nvidia-drivers combinations the Gentoo nvidia-drivers |
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>>> maintainers support. And by "support", I mean they'll look into |
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>>> bugs and fix build problems if they're able to. This is exactly |
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>>> the info I'm grepping out of ewarn messages in their ebuilds now. |
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>> That list is the list of kernels that nVidia supports, which is easy |
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>> to find. |
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> Where? AIUI from reading various threads about this, sometimes that |
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> info can be found in nVidia's developer web forum, but I've never been |
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> able to find it there. nVidia's READMEs give a minimum kernel version, |
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> but no max. |
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So ask nVidia to clearly and unambiguously state in an easily found |
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place what kernels *they* support. |
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Look, all issues with building the driver shim are directly the |
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responsibility of nVidia themselves, a result of *their* business |
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decisions. The correct thing to do is to make it nVidia's problem and |
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not force the community to jump through hoops trying to track down what |
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does and does not work today. |
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Or, you could do the heavy lifting yourself. You test all current |
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drivers with all recent kernels and maintain a gentoo wiki page that |
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lists the info you want. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |