Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:11:44 -0800
Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:

> My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team
> only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The
> Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so they are also not
> supported in Gentoo.

There is no official public statements on this as far as I know,
therefore we resort back to the statement as listed in the minimum
requirements of their latest driver release:

    All official stable kernel releases from 2.4.22 and up are
    supported; "prerelease" versions such as "2.6.23-rc1" are not
    supported, nor are development series kernels such as 2.3.x or
    2.5.x.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/313.18/README/minimumrequirements.html

Yes, you see that correctly, they have no upper bound on it; they don't
define stable either so it is to interpreted as per http://kernel.org.

Perhaps they should set an upper limit and explicitly check for that in
the setup; they either keep up with it or acknowledge that they
can't, but this intermediate phase that users across all
distributions have to figure out is just silly.

But well, maybe it is 'cause they haven't released a new version lately.

    313.09 - December 12, 2012
    313.18 - January 16, 2013

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html

There used to do a monthly release, but February has been quiet.


With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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