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

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

Hello Nick,

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 17:16:38 +0000
<nick.whitlock@eizo.com> wrote:

> I can look into adding a version selection mechanism.

Awesome, thanks!

> About the GTK acceleration. The library (from my understanding)
> provides GPU hardware acceleration support for GTK so it renders on
> the GPU instead of on the CPU.

But how does it hook up into Gtk to accelerate it?

> Side note:
> Originally when I wrote this patch, I wrote it with the proprietary
> NVIDIA driver in mind. However, I'm now aware of the
> open-kernel-modules package of NVIDIA and I may submit a different
> patch to add support for this (bearing in mind that the open kernel
> modules only supports Ampere and up).

I'd say it's up to you which version(s) you want to add support for, as
long as support for already supported HW is preserved (by using a
version selection). So if you add support for the open kernel modules,
which means only support for Ampere platforms is added, that's fine by
me.

BTW, instead of a version selection, we could also decide to introduce
a separate package. Maybe rename nvidia-driver to nvidia-driver-legacy,
or something similar, and add a new nvidia-driver package. This would
be sensible if the packages are radically different in their "build"
process for example.

I prefer two separate and simple packages than a single convoluted
package that supports two versions, but with in fact nothing shared
between the two versions supported.

Thomas
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