Re: CFT: repository for kernel modules

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:23:52 UTC
On Thu 26 Dec 13:26, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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?

Yes !
It seems they can be easily split, but I don't have the time to split them now.
And I don't have any nvidia device to test

Bapt