On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Ike Devolder <[email protected]> wrote: > To get this discussion back on the right track I'm going to build the > binary modules for virtualbox. Sébastien and myself already discussed > what will be done so relatively soon those binary modules will be back. > > My plan is now to provide the virtualbox modules for -arch -lts and > -zen. I think -grsec will be the exception since there are probably > protections in there that will block some modules to even build. > > And when everyone is happy again we probaly should proceed to provide > dkms for all out-of-tree modules alongside the binary modules. That > would benefit everyone and offer the greatest amount of choice. People > using custom kernels can use dkms and have everything working that way > and people using one of the kernels available in the repo's can choose > if they want dkms or binary. Everyone wins.
Please don't add modules for -zen to the repos. They create a maintenance burden I don't want to support. Let -zen users use DKMS; they never had any prebuilt modules anyway.
