Looking at the debian/control file we can see the package is built for arm64 and ppc64el and that this was deliberately added when Thomas was involved in Ubuntu development.
nvidia-settings (367.35-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium * debian/control: - Build for arm64 and ppc64el, even though we don't provide the driver for these architectures yet. * debian/patches/12_nostrip.patch, debian/patches/13_libxnvctrl_so_0.patch: - Refresh patches. -- Alberto Milone <alberto.mil...@canonical.com> Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:10:31 +0200 Given the precedent I'm going to go ahead and sponsor this. ** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1943030 Title: Enable riscv64 build of nvidia-settings Status in nvidia-settings package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Please enable the build on riscv64 architecture of nvidia-settings since it works fine using the attached debdiff: https://launchpad.net/~alexghiti/+archive/ubuntu/riscv/+build/22050736 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/1943030/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp