Slowroll + kernel-longterm = no evdi?

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Hi,

It seems we’ve got a new kernel release on -longterm but the related evdi-kmp-longterm wasn’t built/published. Can I do something about it?

➜ ~ uname -r
6.18.44-1.0.8.sr20260802-longterm
➜ ~ rpm -qa |grep kernel-longterm
kernel-longterm-6.18.44-1.0.8.1.sr20260802.x86_64
kernel-longterm-devel-6.18.44-1.0.8.1.sr20260802.x86_64
kernel-longterm-6.18.43-1.1.x86_64
kernel-longterm-devel-6.18.43-1.1.x86_64
➜ ~ rpm -qa |grep evdi
evdi-kmp-longterm-1.14.15_k6.18.42_1.0.4.sr20260802-1.14.4.1.sr20260802.x86_64
evdi-1.14.15-1.15.x86_64
libevdi1-1.14.15-1.15.x86_64

I think it’s not the first time and since DKMS isn’t also a happy path when doing kernel upgrade I’m looking for advice on what to do

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I found evdi-kmp-longterm-1.14.15_k6.18.44_1.0.8.sr20260802-1.14.4.8.sr20260802.x86_64.rpm being built here
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Slowroll:Build:2/evdi

I have no knowledge about the release process of Slowroll.
Although @bmwiedemann has an account here, I see him more often on reddit.

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Good find, thank you. From this wiki page i learn that “Untested packages go into https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Slowroll:Build:1 or :2 first and are tested by openQA (TBD).”, so this package isn’t necessarily in the main repos.

I zypper refresh’d this morning and latest evdi-kmp-longterm is still for kernel 6.18.42_1.0.4.sr20260802 whereas kernel-longterm’s version is 6.18.44-1.0.8.1.sr20260802

➜  ~ zypper info kernel-longterm |grep -B3 Version
----------------------------------------
Repository     : update-slowroll
Name           : kernel-longterm
Version        : 6.18.44-1.0.8.1.sr20260802
➜  ~ zypper info evdi-kmp-longterm|grep -B3 Version
------------------------------------------
Repository     : update-slowroll
Name           : evdi-kmp-longterm
Version        : 1.14.15_k6.18.42_1.0.4.sr20260802-1.14.4.1.sr20260802

how would they move to the main repos? how come the -longterm kernel moved but not the related -kmp ?

Looking at the slowroll updates repo, if you filter by kmp-longterm you can see that some modules got their release for the 6.18.44 kernel but a bunch of other modules didn’t, non exhaustive list:

  • xpadneo
  • vendor-reset
  • v4l2loopback
  • mhvtl
  • xpad-noone
  • tp_smapi
  • msr_safe
  • …

So this issue isn’t just for evdi.

Would you know of another channel than Reddit than here to discuss this? for some reason I’ve been shadowbanned of Reddit so I cannot post there. I’m not very familiar with the bug report tools / obs ecosystem either

btw the impact for me is that I can’t use my external monitors. I’ve moved from tumbleweed to slowroll for that very issue to begin with, but it still happens :frowning:

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You can create an issue in

Generally we file bug reports on Bugzilla.
For Slowroll, choose Tumbleweed as the product, then select Slowroll for Version.
But in this case I think the slowroll-tools github repository is more spot-on.

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Thank you for the pointers, I’ve opened a GH issue: https://github.com/openSUSE/slowroll-tools/issues/9

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Yes, kmps are not yet consistently updated along with new kernel versions. It is one of the open issues to be solved before Slowroll gets out of Beta state. Now properly tracked in https://trello.com/c/aPx7b6kC/54-consistent-kmps

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