Control: tag -1 confirmed On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 11:00:58PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > [ Reason ] > 1) A backported (by upstream) change in Linux 6.1.76 (included in > today's point release) broke compilation of the non-free nvidia kernel > module. A patched version of the driver is available in sid. > > 2) In order to simplify future maintenance of the many Nvidia driver > packages (also in stable and oldstable) I'm going to remove the > distinction between "normal" and "Tesla" drivers (they were at the > same version in stable anyway). The Tesla specific bits > (src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla) will be merged into > src:nvidia-graphics-drivers (that mainly means addition of the ppc64el > architecture to these packages, and building some binary packages from > src:nvidia-graphics-drivers instead: nvidia-powerd, nvidia-cuda-mps). > nvidia-detect has been updated, too, as it no longer needs to > distinguish the Tesla variants. > There will be one further update to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla > in stable that turns these packages into transitional packages depending > on their counterparts from src:nvidia-graphics-drivers. (Separate PU > request upcoming.) > There will also be a PU request for nvidia-settings, as we need to > enable building that on ppc64el. (The src:nvidia-settings-tesla package > will then become obsolete.) > > 3) In order to better integrate the nvidia driver with the system power > management, a new package nvidia-suspend-common is being introduced > which properly ships and enables some systemd units that were previously > only being shipped as examples. These power management changes are an > enhancement for the 525 series, but seem to be required in the 535 > series. (We will have to switch to the 535 LTSB series in stable soon, > as 525 has reached EoL. 535 will be supported till mid 2026, so that will > be the last driver branch switch for bookworm.) > nvidia-suspend-common was already prepared in the previous pu update, > but not yet enabled on stable as it hadn't undergone enough testing. As > no new issues have popped up on sid, I'm confident to enable this in > stable now.
Please go ahead. Is this something we should release early through stable-updates, given the breakage is caused by a point release? Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1