On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Michael Catanzaro
<mike.catanzaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Josh Boyer
<jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
>
> Absolutely not.
>
> josh
If it breaks the Negativo repo, then yes it is. The Nvidia driver from that
No, it's really not.
repo is supported and it needs to not break. We've been super
super lenient
That's a completely untenable position. There is only one kernel for
all the Editions. There will be times where the kernel needs to be
updated to fix a CVE and it breaks the nVidia driver. There is no way
you can hold the entire distro hostage to an out-of-tree *proprietary*
driver.
with allowing kernel updates in the Workstation product, since it
seems to
be working well for everyone involved, but that would need to be
reconsidered if a kernel update intentionally breaks an important subset of
our users. (Note: we only support Nvidia if installed from the Negativo
repo, not from anywhere else.)
No, you misunderstand. Nobody intentionally broke nvidia. It happens
during the normal course of development because nvidia is out-of-tree
and the upstream project does not preserve ABI. This is the price a
driver pays for being out of tree. The only viable solution is to get
the driver upstream, which is not likely to happen.
It sounds like patches are already available, so it shouldn't be
a huge
problem to get the Nvidia package updated.
Great.
josh