Is it possible for Slowroll to officially support the integrity of NVidia and VMWare modules?
Hello all, I am a 5-years Tumbleweed user. I am also the maintainer of many Tumbeweed packages such as telegram-desktop, chezscheme, amdvlk, and yacreader. I have both AMD and NVIDIA desktops with openSUSE Tumbleweed installed. NVidia closed-source GPU driver integration has always been a pain for rolling release like Tumbleweed because: 1) kernel's API keeps changing and it often takes NVidia 1~2 weeks to follow-up the latest kernel release in their new driver version (see http://rglinuxtech.com/ ); 2) people who don't care about NVidia do not want to slow down the rolling of kernel versions For example, even today the version of nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default(https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/nvidia-open-driver-..., 535.113.01) is not compatible with nvidia-video-G06 (https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/x86_64/, 535.104) on Tumbleweed. I am wondering if we can attract some users to Slowroll if it only releases snapshots whose kernel version is compatible with the NVidia GPU driver? At least I will be very interested to try it out on my Nvidia desktop. Similar case should apply for VMWare kernel modules, but if it takes too much additional efforts, I think we should priortize NVidia module integrity. Best, Xu
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Xu Zhao