Re: kernel is tainted, why?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Andrea Borgia wrote: 
> Hi.
> 
> Running "testing" with the "5.3.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 5.3.15-1" kernel package
> on ASRock B450-HDV mobo with Ryzen 2200G cpu, I noticed that the kernel is
> marked as tainted, with the following flags:
> "G        W        "
> 
> According to the docs[1] this means:
> * all modules are GPL-compatible
> * a warning was issued in the past
> 
> Actually, the amdgpu driver is pretty chatty in dmesg's logs: could that be
> the reason for the tainting?

amdgpupro driver taints the kernel; amdgpu itself does not.

-dsr-