On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 15:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Are all these taint messages, and all the reasons for a taint message > being produced saying that if we have to build our own drivers into the > kernel to be able to use our hardware, and hence put us into the > situation of potentially not getting support for kernel defects if any > are encountered, that we shouldn't be using linux? If you encounter a kernel defect, how can it be debugged if part of the kernel is not available? That's what tainting amounts to. IIRC you've said that you compile the Nvidia modules. What you are actually doing is compiling code (the dkms system) that enables Nvidia's binary blobs to be linked as modules into the Linux kernel. You don't (unless you work for Nvidia) have the source code of those blobs. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
