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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:48:35
Message-Id: 6c50bfcf-d5d7-fd74-3eac-3c7948c8a27e@sys-concept.com
1 I'm loading nvidia via: /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf
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3 but when kernel boots, there is a error message:
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5 Failed to load nvidia
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7 dmesg |grep nvidia
8 nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
9 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
10 nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
11 nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
12 nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 455.28 Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
13 [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000800] Loading driver
14 [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:08:00.0 on minor 0
15 nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
16 caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
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18 Why this error message?

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel thelma@×××××××××××.com
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>