Re: [Buildroot] [External] - [PATCH] package/nvidia-driver: bump version to 550.78

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Nick,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Thanks as well to Vincent
for the review.

On Mon, 13 May 2024 20:03:56 +0000
<nick.whitlock@eizo.com> wrote:

> If a selectable (or user-enterable) version number is the consensus,
> then I'm all for that.
> 
> There isn't currently a way to use recent NVIDIA discrete GPUs (read:
> Ampere and up) for GPGPU in embedded spaces until this gets resolved
> though. 

I think a version selection is the only approach that we have. Indeed
keeping support for older GPUs is important, but supporting newer ones
is also important, so we will have to live with a more complicated
package that supports different generations of the driver.

Nick, do you think you could prepare a new iteration with such a
version selection, but also taking into account the rest of the
feedback from Vincent?

> > +config BR2_PACKAGE_NVIDIA_DRIVER_GTK
> > +       bool "nvidia GTK acceleration"

Could you also give a little bit more details about this GTK
acceleration? How come two additional .so files can "accelerate GTK" ?
How do they interact with GTK ?

Thanks a lot,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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