On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 19:07 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 6/7/22 10:41, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > On Jul 5, 2022, at 18:55, Stephen Morris<samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > [ 13.973636] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> >
> > It’s this line where the kernel notes why it is tainted. Somewhere
> > in
> > the nvidia kmod C code, there is a line that looks like this:
> >
> > MODULE_LICENSE("NVIDIA");
> >
> > The kernel will print out the aforementioned kernel message if it
> > isn’t one of the open licenses defined in the kernel. There’s more
> > about tainted kernels here:
> >
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html
> >
> > There are a variety of reasons why the kernel would be tainted, but
> > in
> > this case it is because a proprietary kernel module was loaded. It
> > doesn’t have anything to do with signed kernel modules or secure
> > boot.
> >
> I thought the akmod version of the nvidia driver was the version that
> was compiled every time the kernel version was changed, is that not
> the case?
It's compiled as a module, but uses the Nvidia blob. It's not free
software.
poc
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