Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
How is this with the non-gpl kernel modules? Novell/SUSE will no longer provide them. So what is a user supposed to do, when he needs e.g. atheros wlan driver? Is there a howto for making a xxx-kmp.rpm? I still don't understand, what these xxx-kmp.rpms are good for.
First - but not complete - documentation on the kmp packages is available from: http://www.suse.de/~agruen/KMPM The advantages of KMP is that it decouples the main kernel and additional packages. Previously km_wlan was build together with kernel-default, any updates of km_wlan needed a new kernel-default (etc) as well. Now you can update the KMP without a rebuild of the kernel - and during an update of the kernel, we check that the kernel ABI is correct for all modules that are installed in the system and if not, tell the admin that an updated module is needed Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126