| 1 |
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
> |
| 3 |
> On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: |
| 4 |
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 |
| 5 |
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 6 |
> > |
| 7 |
> >> On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: |
| 8 |
> >>>> I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate |
| 9 |
> >>>> enough |
| 10 |
> >>>>> to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be |
| 11 |
> >>>>> useless. Which brings you back to the previous paragraph - try |
| 12 |
> >>>>> emerge nvidia-drivers and if it fails then don't use that kernel. |
| 13 |
> >>> I was unclear to the point of being misleading. I'm sorry. |
| 14 |
> >>> |
| 15 |
> >>> The wiki idea is only for a page which tells which |
| 16 |
> >>> kernel/nvidia-drivers combinations the Gentoo nvidia-drivers |
| 17 |
> >>> maintainers support. And by "support", I mean they'll look into |
| 18 |
> >>> bugs and fix build problems if they're able to. This is exactly |
| 19 |
> >>> the info I'm grepping out of ewarn messages in their ebuilds now. |
| 20 |
> >> |
| 21 |
> >> |
| 22 |
> >> That list is the list of kernels that nVidia supports, which is easy |
| 23 |
> >> to find. |
| 24 |
> > |
| 25 |
> > Where? AIUI from reading various threads about this, sometimes that |
| 26 |
> > info can be found in nVidia's developer web forum, but I've never been |
| 27 |
> > able to find it there. nVidia's READMEs give a minimum kernel version, |
| 28 |
> > but no max. |
| 29 |
> |
| 30 |
> |
| 31 |
> So ask nVidia to clearly and unambiguously state in an easily found |
| 32 |
> place what kernels *they* support. |
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> Look, all issues with building the driver shim are directly the |
| 35 |
> responsibility of nVidia themselves, a result of *their* business |
| 36 |
> decisions. The correct thing to do is to make it nVidia's problem and |
| 37 |
> not force the community to jump through hoops trying to track down what |
| 38 |
> does and does not work today. |
| 39 |
> |
| 40 |
> Or, you could do the heavy lifting yourself. You test all current |
| 41 |
> drivers with all recent kernels and maintain a gentoo wiki page that |
| 42 |
> lists the info you want. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
Hmm... reading this thread makes me understand why Linus gave nVidia 'the bird'. |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
Rgds, |
| 49 |
-- |
| 50 |
FdS Pandu E Poluan |
| 51 |
~ IT Optimizer ~ |
Archives