On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 01:52:06PM +0200, Ike Devolder wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:03PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > On 05/05/17 at 06:58am, Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-dev-public wrote: > > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:29 AM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Problematic with 4.11, license needs to be patched I don't think this is > > > > legal. > > > > http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1935 > > > > > > > > > We could patch the kernel to make the needed symbols non-GPL instead. That > > > at least sounds less problematic (IANAL). > > > > There is a patch for 4.12 to undo the change from GregKH. [1] > > > > [1] > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d557d1b58b3546bab2c5bc2d624c5709840e6b10.patch > > > > -- > > Jelle van der Waa > > That patch is in the queue for 4.11.1 too, so once 4.11.1 lands the > nvidia driver should build as expected. I'm going to test later today if > everything builds fine with this patch applied. > > -- > Ike
So with the patch given above or from the 4.11.1 queue [1] there are no more issues with the nvidia drivers. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/plain/queue-4.11/refcount-change-export_symbol-markings.patch -- Ike
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
