On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: > >>>> I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate > >>>> enough > >>>>> to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be > >>>>> useless. Which brings you back to the previous paragraph - try > >>>>> emerge nvidia-drivers and if it fails then don't use that kernel. > >>> I was unclear to the point of being misleading. I'm sorry. > >>> > >>> The wiki idea is only for a page which tells which > >>> kernel/nvidia-drivers combinations the Gentoo nvidia-drivers > >>> maintainers support. And by "support", I mean they'll look into > >>> bugs and fix build problems if they're able to. This is exactly > >>> the info I'm grepping out of ewarn messages in their ebuilds now. > >> > >> > >> That list is the list of kernels that nVidia supports, which is easy > >> to find. > > > > Where? AIUI from reading various threads about this, sometimes that > > info can be found in nVidia's developer web forum, but I've never been > > able to find it there. nVidia's READMEs give a minimum kernel version, > > but no max. > > > So ask nVidia to clearly and unambiguously state in an easily found > place what kernels *they* support. > > Look, all issues with building the driver shim are directly the > responsibility of nVidia themselves, a result of *their* business > decisions. The correct thing to do is to make it nVidia's problem and > not force the community to jump through hoops trying to track down what > does and does not work today. > > Or, you could do the heavy lifting yourself. You test all current > drivers with all recent kernels and maintain a gentoo wiki page that > lists the info you want.
Hmm... reading this thread makes me understand why Linus gave nVidia 'the bird'. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~
