On 2016-04-13 15:44, Ike Devolder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> 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. > > That makes it easier for me. So we stick to binary modules for [core] > kernels and the rest does dkms as a middle way. >
Let's wait for Andreas opinion on this, but I think that binary modules for -lts are unnecessary. I always used this kernel for servers (where I don't really care about Virtualbox or Nvidia…) and sometimes a fallback if -ARCH is broken. Bartłomiej
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