nvidia kernel is tainted following updates
User reports a kernel taint message following updating to kernel
5.5.5. Has anything changed in kernel 5.5 that explains this?
This is the message they're seeing:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-tainted-after-running-updates/5487...
My understanding of these messages is:
1. the proprietary nvidia driver is being loaded and used
2. since the module is not signed, the kernel is tainted
But I'm not sure what else I can infer about kernel taint. Are all the
other lockdowns still in place? Ideally the user would register a key
using mokutil, and sign the module. But if they don't do that, they
are still better off than if they disable UEFI Secure Boot to avoid
getting the kernel taint message, correct?
Thanks,
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Chris Murphy