Hi, Linux kernel < 4.7.0 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers newer than 367.35-r1. Linux kernel >= 4.70 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers older than 370.23.
According to this http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html Linux kernels < 4.7.0 are affected by a security bug. Unfortunately nvidia-drivers 370.23 has a bug too: Blender (and may be other similiar programs) crash when accessing certain funtionality of that driver. I reported that bug here: https://developer.blender.org/T49113 Due to that a bug was reported to nvidia and they accepted and fixed that bug with nvidia dirvers 370.23, which became already available. Without that driver all Blender users have to stick with a Linux kernel with a security problem or have to quit using Blender... Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ? Thank you very much for your help and understanding for a Blender freak ! :)) Best regards, Meino
