Comment # 25 on bug 1173682 from
(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #19)
> Let's get this straight:
> 
>  - After years of fighting and hassle, NVidia still ships the proprieary
> driver and AFAIK has no intention to cease doing that.
>  - SB is becoming more and more ubiquitous, and SB + unsigned modules is a
> general problem, not only on openSUSE but on every Linux distro.
>  - SUSE and the openSUSE community have done a great deal of work to make
> packaging and installing the drivers hassle-free for users. That's work that
> NVidia should have done but chose rather not to.
>  - Now with secure boot and CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y, the problem gets a new
> dimension that the community can't easily solve. It's a catch-22. 
>  - Eventually it's NVidia's problem and only NVidia can solve it "for good",
> either by open-sourcing the driver or by packaging and shipping properly
> signed driver modules.

Yes.

And while I do fully agree with this, there's still the problem that some
openSUSE Leap 15 users (that upgrade from 15.1 to 15.2) are suddenly left with
an unbootable system.

I would think that this should be worth a reconsideration.

Anyway, as I wrote, it's not *my* problem.


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