Hi Some good news. Finally NVIDIA's official announcement regarding this issue is available: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-driver-not-yet-supported-for-li... --- Due to an incompatibility issue, we advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available. Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available. NVIDIA is aware of the impact this will have on customers, and we are working diligently to provide the driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support as soon as possible. Customers must use our upcoming driver update on Kernel 5.9+ to have a fully functioning driver. --- JFYI, SUSE were in contact with NVIDIA since the kernel patch was proposed on the kernel mailing list. Unfortunately SUSE cannot share discussions and outcomes SUSE has with our partners with the openSUSE community beforehand for obvious reaons. So remaining silent when such topics pop up does not necessarily mean SUSE wouldn't care about the needs for our userbase and openSUSE community. Unfortunately Jiri wasn't involved in the discussions with NVIDIA, so he didn't know what was going on behind the doors. Otherwise this wouldn't have ended in such a shitstorm. We were already preparing an announcement for the release of Kernel 5.9 but were also still waiting for the official announcement by NVIIDA. :-( Hope this helps to understand the situation. Sigh. Thanks, Stefan On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:08:25AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
Hi,
this is just so you know: I intentionally linger with pushing kernel 5.9 into K:s and TW. Nvidia (mainly CUDA – uvm module) has licensing problems with 5.9. It always had, but 5.9 forbids this bad behavior now¹⁾.
To cite, Nvidia promises to provide something "early". They will allegedly provide some announcement somewhere too (I don't know the details, don't ask me). Seife might (or might not) know more.
If that doesn't happen until 5.9.1²⁾, I won't wait any longer and will proceed with pushing 5.9.1 to K:s and TW. They had enough time to fix their issue. More precisely since 5.9-rc1 which was released on Aug 16 13:04:57 2020 -0700. That is almost _two_ months! In fact, they must have been aware of the problem given they have been using this so-called GPL condom for ages.
While I understand there might be CUDA users in TW, I see a little reason why one company would stop rolling our rolling distro. Users relying on uvm module should simply stay ("zypper al" is your friend) with 5.8 until the mess is resolved. If they don't announce anything, we will, so you can keep up.
¹⁾ https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/262e6ae708 ²⁾ There is no 5.9 queue in stable-queue git yet. It will take few more days or a week.
thanks, -- js suse labs
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