On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 7:55 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>     I believe I am using akmod to build the nvidia kernel module when the
> kernel version changes and that built module is tainting the kernel because
> of missing signature or keys, which I am assuming are secure boot keys, but
> I also followed some instructions I found on the net to get nvidia keys
> into secure boot when I first installed the nvidia modules. I don't know
> whether I was getting the following messages at that time or not, as I
> found these when I was looking for something else.
>      Is the issue with the following messages that the secure boot keys
> have to be rebuilt every time the nvidia modules are updated?
>

It is the nvidia proprietary code that kernel developers can't examine --
nothing to do with the secure boot keys:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/nvidia-taints-kernel/12753


>     Just as a follow on from this, I've read that nvidia have open sourced
> their linux drivers, how long will it take for those to be incorporated
> into the distribution to remove the requirement for the Rpm Fusion versions?
>
> [   13.973631] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
> [   13.973636] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> [   13.978637] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or
> required key missing - tainting kernel
> [   13.988926] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major
> device number 511
> [   13.989619] nvidia 0000:09:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes:
> olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
> [   14.040430] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  510.68.02
>  Wed Apr 20 21:10:34 UTC 2022
> [   14.677665] caller _nv000651rm+0x1ad/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple
> BARs
> [   14.928567] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module
> nvidia, inheriting taint.
>



-- 
George N. White III
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