[elrepo] Heads Up: RHEL 7.4 beta kernel breaks kmod-nvidia driver

[Jonathan Billings]

I can probably build it using the SPEC files in github.  Since I maintain
openafs kmod packages, I've already done some work to make it easier (I
have custom mock configs for the beta image).

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 13/06/17 21:33, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>
>> I just tested the RHEL 7.4 beta kernel on a RHEL 7.3 system, and the
>> kmod-nvidia package doesn't load.  Here's the output when trying to install
>> the package:
>>
>>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I'm not surprised, to date the nvidia package has
> broken for every major RHEL7 release so we will need to rebuild it against
> the final RHEL 7.4 kernel as soon as it is released. We normally aim to get
> that done within 24h of the upstream release.
>
> There's not much point building it now against the beta kernel as that
> will change again for the final RHEL 7.4 release.
>
> But good to know - nvidia users will need to hold off updating (or at
> least rebooting) to the 7.4 kernel until nvidia updates are available, and
> then update both at the same time.
>
> Phil
>
> PS - did you want a kmod-nvidia build for the 7.4 beta kernel to allow you
> to continue testing? We don't normally build or release these but it's easy
> enough for me to build it.
>
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Jonathan Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu>
College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support
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