Bug#1063675: bookworm-pu: package nvidia-graphics-drivers/525.147.05-6~deb12u1
Hi Jonathan,
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 12:29:45AM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> 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?
If I can add a comment: I (but note I'm not wearing a
nvidia-graphics-drivers maintainer hat) would support that, as there
are enough people affected by this. This is quite unfortunate and I'm
open to hear ideas how we can try to avoid such fallouts.
As you know we are strictly following upstream stable series (and
trying our best to keep an eye on as well regression reports upstream,
but OOT modules are not explicitly tested, so neither the nvidia ones)
Regards,
Salvatore
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