On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 15:46 -0400, Lester Petrie wrote:
>
> On 7/6/2022 12:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 19:07 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > > On 6/7/22 10:41, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > I thought the akmod version of the nvidia driver was the version
> > > that
> > > was compiled every time the kernel version was changed, is that
> > > not
> > > the case?
> > It's compiled as a module, but uses the Nvidia blob. It's not free
> > software.
> >
> > poc
>
> If I remember your original email, you have successfully created and
> installed a key to sign the modules with (and maybe even signed the
> original module). If you have kept the key, you will not have to
> generate and install another one, but every time you install a new
> kernel, a new set of nvidia modules will need to be created and then
> signed. When I install a new kernel, the nvidia modules are created
> automatically, but after they are created, I have to manually sign
> them. I hope this is relevant to your original question.
This should have been a reply to the OP, not to me.
poc
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