Re: CFT: repository for kernel modules

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:26:36 UTC
On 13/12/2024 16:28, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri 13 Dec 07:24, Alan Somers wrote:
>> Success!  With drm-61-kmod-6.1.92.1402000_3 I can kldload 915kms on
>> FreeBSD 14.2.  Before switching to this repo, kldload would hang.
>>
>> Also, in addition to kmods, there are a few other ports that must be
>> rebuilt for every minor version. devel/py-libzfs is one.  Could that
>> be added to the new repository?
> 
> Right now and until we have a thin repository support in poudriere: no :(.
> 
> One of the limitation is everything is cross build from amd64 so I cannot get
> much things in that repo considering that in 2024 perl is still not cross build
> friendly and last I checked python wasn't either.

I guess that's also the reason why nvidia driver packages are not built for the 
kmod repo?
Because they bundle kernel and userland code in the same port?

-- 
Andriy Gapon