On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 08:06:52AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > TBH, I have no clue what that library is good for. Nvidia was not very > informative when adding library, these are the two places where it is > mentioned in the documentation: > > o Various libraries that are used internally by other driver components. > These include '/usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.510.73.08', > [...] > '/usr/lib/libnvidia-allocator.so.510.73.08'. > > * Added support for the GBM API. This adds the new symlink > nvidia-drm_gbm.so pointing to the file libnvidia-allocator.so.VERSION to > implement a GBM backend driver usable with the GBM loader from the Mesa > [...] > > Do you have some suggestions what to put into the description instead?
Sorry, no. I tried googling before I posted the bug report, hoping to find a useful summary but didn't find anything. > ("Nvidia probably knows a reason for the existence of this library." > wouldn't be helpful either.) Maybe something like "Nvidia hasn't bothered documenting what this library is for" might encourage them to volunteer some details :) craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>