Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 6/24/25 19:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > I plan to contact directly the sponsor to study the impact of
> > (officially) stopping supporting nvidia-graphics-driver. But before
> > that, it would be helpful to know if a full version backport is
> > technically possible or not. Help with that will be very appreciated.
> > Any volunteers?
>
> A backport of 535.247.01-1~deb12u1 to bullseye should be rather trivial.
> Compared to 470.xx the ppc64el architecture will dropped since upstream no
> longer provides updated ppc64el binaries (this has also been done in
> bookworm).
> It is not a 0-change backport due to Openssl 1.1 vs. OpenSSL 3 (the
> neccessary changes are already in 535.183.01-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1).
> While writing this email a bullseye test rebuild of an updated
> bullseye-backports branch completed successfully. I can provide builds for
> LTS (source and/or binary, all architectures), but not test them.
I can do test on amd64 on an old GTX 770 card (which might no longer
support 5xx) and on a 3060ti.
> Andreas
>
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