Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote:
>>>> I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate
>>>> enough
>>>>> to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be
>>>>> useless. Which brings you back to the previous paragraph - try
>>>>> emerge nvidia-drivers and if it fails then don't use that kernel.
>>> I was unclear to the point of being misleading.  I'm sorry.
>>>
>>> The wiki idea is only for a page which tells which
>>> kernel/nvidia-drivers combinations the Gentoo nvidia-drivers
>>> maintainers support.  And by "support", I mean they'll look into
>>> bugs and fix build problems if they're able to.  This is exactly
>>> the info I'm grepping out of ewarn messages in their ebuilds now.
>>
>>
>> That list is the list of kernels that nVidia supports, which is easy
>> to find.
>
> Where?  AIUI from reading various threads about this, sometimes that
> info can be found in nVidia's developer web forum, but I've never been
> able to find it there.  nVidia's READMEs give a minimum kernel version,
> but no max.


So ask nVidia to clearly and unambiguously state in an easily found
place what kernels *they* support.

Look, all issues with building the driver shim are directly the
responsibility of nVidia themselves, a result of *their* business
decisions. The correct thing to do is to make it nVidia's problem and
not force the community to jump through hoops trying to track down what
does and does not work today.

Or, you could do the heavy lifting yourself. You test all current
drivers with all recent kernels and maintain a gentoo wiki page that
lists the info you want.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com