On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 13:00 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 25/2/18 12:15 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > 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. > > I can understand objects being linked together to build an executable > module, but what I don't understand, based on what you are saying, is > where the source code in the nvidia directory in /usr/src that dkms is > compiling has come from if it hasn't come from nvidia? No-one is saying it doesn't come from Nvidia. What I'm saying is that that code is *not* the entire Nvidia driver, it's simply linking code that enables the use of the binary driver they supply. IOW you don't have the *complete* source of the driver. That's why it's tainted. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
