Bug 585894

Summary:	Nvidia Tesla specific drivers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marius Brehler <marius.brehler+gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	archenroot, marius.brehler+gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/101935/en-us
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marius Brehler 2016-06-14 06:47:51 UTC

NVIDIA released 352.93 for Tesla devices in April. I assume this might be the last driver of the 352 branch, which is no longer the "long lasting branch". Also newer drivers might support our K40c devices, I would appreciate a version bump to 352.93, since this is the last official release for CUDA 7.5 and Telsa GPUs. CUDA 8.0 isn't yet stable and only available as a release candidate.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-06-15 05:55:13 UTC

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers has never supported the Tesla specific driver releases, as far as I am aware.

Comment 2 Marius Brehler 2016-06-15 11:55:36 UTC

So how to proceed? If Telsa specific releases are not welcome we can close this bug and I will deploy the driver over local overlays to all my machines. However, other Gentoo users won't profit from that way. The other options I see is either a version bump or maybe a new ebuild (for example nvidia-drivers-tesla).

Comment 3 Marius Brehler 2016-09-12 07:32:35 UTC

Since I have three machines with K40c, I could take over the maintenance of this new package if desired. Anyway,these ebuild would be mainly a copy of the nvidia-drivers package. How should the package be called? x11-drivers/nvidia-tesla-drivers?