On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 6/24/25 19:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > I plan to contact directly the sponsor to study the impact of > > (officially) stopping supporting nvidia-graphics-driver. But before > > that, it would be helpful to know if a full version backport is > > technically possible or not. Help with that will be very appreciated. > > Any volunteers? > > A backport of 535.247.01-1~deb12u1 to bullseye should be rather trivial. > Compared to 470.xx the ppc64el architecture will dropped since upstream no > longer provides updated ppc64el binaries (this has also been done in > bookworm). > It is not a 0-change backport due to Openssl 1.1 vs. OpenSSL 3 (the > neccessary changes are already in 535.183.01-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1). > While writing this email a bullseye test rebuild of an updated > bullseye-backports branch completed successfully. I can provide builds for > LTS (source and/or binary, all architectures), but not test them.
I can do test on amd64 on an old GTX 770 card (which might no longer support 5xx) and on a 3060ti. > Andreas >
