[Intel-gfx] Kernel bits and DKMS. Possible?

[Colin Guthrie]

Hi,

I just got struck by a thought and figured I'd put it out there to be 
laughed at and ridiculed before I work out by myself that it's stupid :p

As more and more stuff from the drivers is going into the kernel these 
days would it be sensible to create a DKMS package that would 
dynamically compile up the relevant bits without having to build a whole 
kernel? If snapshots are packaged up conveniently it would probably open 
up the door to wider testing.

I'm not super familiar with DKMS, but could probably suss it out what 
would be needed here without too much effort.

If this is possible, which branch would be best to use for it (drm-next?)

In theory it should be easy enough to build a package that works on at 
least Fedora and Mandriva, possibly OpenSuSE too (I'm not really sure 
how many distros use DKMS if I'm honest).

Is this completely insane or would this be possible? I just want to ask 
if there is some fundamental reason why this wouldn't work too well 
(e.g. if some bits are not in the i915 module but very much compiled 
into the kernel itself and are not modular)

Thoughts welcome :)

Col

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