DKMS Infrastructure about open-gpu-kernel-modules HOT 5 OPEN

For reference, we've filed NVIDIA-internal bug 3642567 for this request.

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Good idea. Tagging as an enhancement.

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Not every distribution uses DKMS, so please do not make DKMS a hard requirement. Otherwise, you might see some per distribution patching in the opposite direction. Doing it like ZFSOnLinux where DKMS is a wrapper around the existing build system would be great.

Making DKMS a wrapper around the existing build system rather than rewriting the build system to be DKMS should go without saying, but just in case, I am saying it anyway.

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Thank you.
I'm guessing you could rip the DKMS setups from Arch Linux packaging (its just .sh scripts) or Ubuntu/RHEL-types pretty easily.
If the Makefile then contains a make dkms option which takes a DESTDIR paramter for chroot-targets (pacakge scaffold roots), then all downstream users could leverage it to build their respective DKMS packages from this repo.

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I might be misunderstanding the intention of this issue, but as far as I'm concerned, I think I managed to get dkms working fine in the Arch package. Please give it a test and see whether it's working as intended. See here for the PKGBUILD.

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