Any thoughts on this?
After my workstation breaking again due to Nvidia proprietary related stuff + kernel updates.
I thought Id try and figure out why for myself rather than just reinstalling the entire machine again.
Is this the solution? Sounds like redhat/nvidia teamwork.
And just installs the driver to match kernel without any tinkering?
Any additional config needed ie blacklisting nouveau?
“Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules”
So are these “modules” 100% free and open source now?
I have no idea if they are free & open source but I went ahead added the repo after removing the old one I made and then just rolled with the nvidia-dkms out f that
the repo works, and is in the open on nvidia’s website
This news is about the signed version.
UEFI Secure Boot requires that boot loader, kernel, and all kernel modules are signed with some certificate that the UEFI knows about.
The Rocky kernel and all modules that come with it are signed by Rocky. Installation of Rocky
gives a certificate to UEFI, so it knows Rocky’s signature. RHEL does the same.
Third-party kernel modules may or may not be signed. If not, then they cannot be loaded with Secure Boot on.
ELRepo has their own sign key. One has to import its certificate to UEFI with mokutil.
NVidia has their own sign key. One has to import its certificate to UEFI with mokutil.
The dkms creates a key for you. One has to import its certificate to UEFI with mokutil.
NVidia’s CUDA repository has proprietary and open drivers. Both precompiled (signed with NVidia’s key) and to build with dkms on your system.
The “preview” of this annoucement will have another copy of precompiled open driver, signed with RHEL’s key. These will be useful only if your system has RHEL’s key, i.e. if you have installed RHEL. That is a convenience for RHEL users – no need to add certificate with mokutil, but will not help other distros.
The NVidia’s open drivers support only Turing and newer NVidia cards.
The Blackwell seems to be the last generation supported by NVidia’s proprietary drivers.
NVidia writes:
The proprietary flavor supports the GPU architectures Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, and later GPUs until Blackwell. Blackwell and later are only supported by the open kernel modules.
The open flavor of kernel modules supports Turing and later GPUs. The open kernel modules cannot support GPUs before Turing, because the open kernel modules depend on the GPU System Processor (GSP) first introduced in Turing.
and
Open, i.e. source-published, kernel modules that are dual licensed MIT/GPLv2. With every driver release, the source code to the open kernel modules is published on GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source