On Jul 5, 2022, at 18:55, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> [ 13.973636] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
It’s this line where the kernel notes why it is tainted. Somewhere in the
nvidia kmod C code, there is a line that looks like this:
MODULE_LICENSE("NVIDIA");
The kernel will print out the aforementioned kernel message if it isn’t one of
the open licenses defined in the kernel. There’s more about tainted kernels
here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html
There are a variety of reasons why the kernel would be tainted, but in this
case it is because a proprietary kernel module was loaded. It doesn’t have
anything to do with signed kernel modules or secure boot.
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