On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 23:45 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
_ANY_ kernel module will have to be recompiled to work properly with the -rt kernel, just like any other kernel version we provide.
Sigh.. I need to make a second class of our own drivers.
Any reason your drivers are not already in the mainline kernel? If you need help getting them there, the linuxdriverproject.org people are more than willing to help you out.
Anyway, as the nvidia driver is closed source, I really have no idea how it interacts with the kernel at all. Heck, the fact that it even works for anyone is amazing to me...
I do not need to take action. The RT kernel, I am guessing, is not considered an update, which makes sense.
That's right, it is just another kernel "variant" like the -bigsmp kernel is.
So did the nvidia driver not get installed into the RT kernel on purpose (it was not fully recompiled with -rt stuff) or by oversight? The end result may be what you want. But it would be nice if it was for the right reason.
Probably by oversight, or the fact that nvidia didn't realize we had a -rt kernel? Who really knows, nvidia does this, not SuSE, we have no insight with what they do because of the closed-source-not-able-to-be-maintained-as-they-are-infringing-on-the-kernel-copyright type thing... good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org