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From: Meino.Cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Request to update nvidia-drivers to version nvidia-drivers-370.28
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:28:16
Message-Id: 20160909032800.GD4861@solfire
1 Hi,
2
3 Linux kernel < 4.7.0 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers newer than 367.35-r1.
4 Linux kernel >= 4.70 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers older than 370.23.
5
6 According to this
7 http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html
8 Linux kernels < 4.7.0 are affected by a security bug.
9
10 Unfortunately nvidia-drivers 370.23 has a bug too: Blender (and may be
11 other similiar programs) crash when accessing certain funtionality
12 of that driver.
13
14 I reported that bug here:
15 https://developer.blender.org/T49113
16
17 Due to that a bug was reported to nvidia and they accepted and fixed
18 that bug with nvidia dirvers 370.23, which became already available.
19
20 Without that driver all Blender users have to stick with a Linux
21 kernel with a security problem or have to quit using Blender...
22
23 Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into
24 Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily
25 switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ?
26
27 Thank you very much for your help and understanding for a Blender
28 freak ! :))
29
30 Best regards,
31 Meino

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