Bug#1074465: RFP: nvidia-fabricmanager

[Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi@qobi.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : nvidia-fabricmanager
  Version         : 525_525.125.06-1_amd64
  Upstream Contact: I don't know
* URL             : https://github.com/NVIDIA/apt-packaging-fabric-manager
                    https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian11/x86_64/nvidia-fabricmanager-525_525.125.06-1_amd64.deb
* License         : I don't know
  Programming Lang: I don't know
  Description     : High-end NVIDIA server GPUs, like the DGX H100, use SXM, a high speed interconnect. This needs an NVidia package called fabricmanager. Without this package, the GPUs can't be used. While it is possible to download and install this poackage from NVidia, it took me a while to figure this all out. Especially since the version of fabricmanager must match the driver and kernel version and sometimes the nvidia website does not have a version of fabricmanger sutiable for the current nvidia driver and kernel version in Debian. It would be nice if Debian were to package an official Debian non-free version of fabricmanager and make it be a depencency of nvidia-driver or nvidia-cuda-toolkit so that things just work out of the box.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/apt-packaging-fabric-manager

This is the version that I currently use for the driver in Debian
12.5:

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian11/x86_64/nvidia-fabricmanager-525_525.125.06-1_amd64.deb

I have used it for about five years.

I am not a debian dev and an not versed in the debian maintenance procedures.