Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

thveillon.debian wrote:
> > When can we expect either a proper kernel kbuild, or a decoupling of
> > dependencies that will allow building out-of-tree kernel modules without
> >  needing kbuild?

> This was posted not long ago in a similar thread :
>
>  Gilles Mocellin wrote :
> > Le Wednesday 04 February 2009 00:26:41 Alex Samad, wrote :
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have been using the kernel snapshot repo to grab a 2.6.28 kernel, >>but
> > > I notice they are not building a kbuild package and thus I can't >>build
> > > modules against the kernel.
> > >
> > >
> > > How are other people building their 2.6.28 kernel and/or kbuild
> > > packages
> > I've just rebuilt it for me (I use the nvidia driver).
> > It's not really hard :
> >
> > You must have the deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list :
> >
> > deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main
> > deb-src http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main
> >
> > To be able to compile, instal build-essentials.
> >
> > $ apt-get source linux-kbuild-2.6-2.6.28
> > $ cd linux-kbuild-2.6-2.6.28
> > $ dpkg-buildpackage
> > $ cd ..
> > $ dpkg -i linux-kbuild-2.6.28_2.6.28-1~snapshot.12595_amd64.deb
> >
> > After that, you can install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64,
> > and m-a a-i nvidia ...


Thank you very much.  I missed that thread.

It still begs some questions.  Why don't they build/package a normal 
kbuild that matches the dependency that the kernel header package has?

I suppose that it will enter mainstream, instead of being in 
kernel-archive, and then there will be a kbuild infrastructure.  Maybe 
it is too much work for the relatively few people who roll their own 
custom kernel.  But a lot of people use that NVidia blob.  And other 
hardware drivers that need compiling.

Mark