On Sex, 2015-05-29 at 08:54 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:40 AM, David Sommerseth <davids@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 28/05/15 17:45, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:26 AM, David Sommerseth <davids@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've started poking into packaging the mhvtl project for Fedora and > >>> EPEL. This package also contains a kernel module, which normally works > >>> fine - until you hit Secure Boot. > >>> > >>> So I was wondering how to handle this the best way. AFAIK, there are > >>> currently no plans to get the mhvtl.ko kernel module into the upstream > >>> kernel. > >> > >> Where can I read more information on this project, and why that might be? > > > > Duh! I'm so into this I forget to add better project info ... > > > > <https://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2/> > > Sorry, I should have been more explicit in my question. I found the > site by googling of course, but I was curious if you had pointers to > reasoning/discussion around why the kernel module won't be pushed > upstream. > > >> It is worth noting that Fedora does not allow packages other than the > >> kernel to ship kernel modules. > > > > Oh, I was not aware of that. But compiling a kernel module "on-the-fly" > > is acceptable for Fedora? > > Kinda. Packages that do that exist. We know they exist. We assume > the people maintaining them are going to be polite and deal with > issues. This is a good subject for RPMFusion and all his kmods ... , but I really don't have time to think about it . In Ask we got examples of kmods signed for VirtualBox under Sercure Boot : https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/68285/best-way-to-install-virtualbox/?answer=68413#post-id-68413 https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/34470/virtual-box-on-fedora-19-fails-to-start-a-vm/?answer=59222#post-id-59222 Seems possible ship kernel modules on the fly since fedora package kernel also does it (it seems), I read that somewhere. Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
