Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>dmesg |grep nvidia
> nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
 ^^^
[..]
>Why this error message?  

There is no error.
See 

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel

[thelma]

On 12/13/2020 05:48 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I'm loading nvidia via:  /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf
> 
> but when kernel boots, there is a error message: 
> 
> Failed to load nvidia
> 
> dmesg |grep nvidia
>  nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
>  nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
>  nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
>  nvidia :08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: 
> olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
>  nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 
>  455.28  Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
> [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x0800] Loading driver
> [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for :08:00.0 on minor 0
> nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
> caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
> 
> Why this error message?  

and yes, I run:
emerge -1 @module-rebuild

[gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel

[thelma]

I'm loading nvidia via:  /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf

but when kernel boots, there is a error message: 

Failed to load nvidia

dmesg |grep nvidia
 nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
 nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
 nvidia :08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: 
olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
 nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  
455.28  Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
[drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x0800] Loading driver
[drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for :08:00.0 on minor 0
nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs

Why this error message?