On Fri, 4 Jul 2025, Tobias Frost wrote:
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.
Were you able to test it? I have a GTX 750, and while I'm not able to test the new driver, I'm hoping my card will still work once I do finally upgrade to it.
-Ariel