On 28 April 2010 15:41, Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We do use some NVIDIA's but mostly with 96xx legacy series
> driver (however we may start using the 195 current series
> on our future hardware):
>
> So far we use nvidia packages we maintain ourselves but it would
> be interesting for us to change this situation...

Hello Jarek,

As long as you are using SL 5.3 or above, you should find that the
packages will fulfil your requirements. The current (as distinct from
the legacy) package is regularly rebuilt when nVidia releases a new
version.

> Speaking of which I'm little bit confused about nvidia kernel
> modules and kABI: checking  http://dup.et.redhat.com/
> and using kABI testing script gives following result on your
>
> kmod-nvidia-190.53-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm, nvidia.ko:
>
> ./abi_check.py ./lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ABI Checker
> --------------------------------------
>
> ABI Checker version: 1.2
>
> Module:    ./lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> Kernel:    2.6.18-194.el5
> Whitelist: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64/kabi_whitelist
>
> WARNING: The following symbols are used by your module
> WARNING: and are not on the ABI whitelist.
>
> symbol: acpi_walk_namespace
> symbol: agp_bridges
> symbol: acpi_get_handle
> symbol: acpi_os_wait_events_complete
> symbol: acpi_evaluate_object
> symbol: acpi_bus_get_device
> symbol: acpi_install_notify_handler
> symbol: acpi_evaluate_integer
> symbol: acpi_remove_notify_handler

That is a known issue and as I am not one of the team maintaining the
nVidia packages, it would be best if I do not go into great details
but just refer you to the relevant bug tracker entries [1][2]. The
whole issue of the kernel ABI whitelist and the requirements of
certain kmod packages requiring non-listed symbols is something that
we have discussed with Jon Masters, of Red Hat.

Although I know that other members of the ELRepo Admin Team are
subscribed to this list, I think it might be best to transfer this
discussion to the ELRepo mailing list [3] where the more appropriate
audience can be found.

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=30
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520891
[3] http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo