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* [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
@ 2020-12-14  0:48 thelma
  2020-12-14  0:52 ` thelma
  2020-12-14  2:40 ` David Haller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: thelma @ 2020-12-14  0:48 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo mailing list

I'm loading nvidia via:  /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf

but when kernel boots, there is a error message: 

Failed to load nvidia

dmesg |grep nvidia
 nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
 nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
 nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
 nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  455.28  Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
[drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000800] Loading driver
[drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:08:00.0 on minor 0
nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs

Why this error message?  


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* Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
  2020-12-14  0:48 [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel thelma
@ 2020-12-14  0:52 ` thelma
  2020-12-14  2:40 ` David Haller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: thelma @ 2020-12-14  0:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo mailing list

On 12/13/2020 05:48 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I'm loading nvidia via:  /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf
> 
> but when kernel boots, there is a error message: 
> 
> Failed to load nvidia
> 
> dmesg |grep nvidia
>  nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
>  nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
>  nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 246
>  nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
>  nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  455.28  Wed Sep 30 00:58:12 UTC 2020
> [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000800] Loading driver
> [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:08:00.0 on minor 0
> nvidia-smi (1442) used greatest stack depth: 12624 bytes left
> caller _nv000708rm+0x1af/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
> 
> Why this error message?  

and yes, I run:
emerge -1 @module-rebuild


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* Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
  2020-12-14  0:48 [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel thelma
  2020-12-14  0:52 ` thelma
@ 2020-12-14  2:40 ` David Haller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Haller @ 2020-12-14  2:40 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello,

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>dmesg |grep nvidia
> nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[..]
>Why this error message?  

There is no error.
See <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint#Verb>

-dnh

-- 
"The command 'man man' works fine, but 'man woman' produces:
 No manual entry for woman."        -- Constantinos Maltezos


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