| ohcanada | hello. question related to kernel 5.4 and nvidia-340 support. i have some old quadro 170M and g210 machines which currently use nvidia-340 on bionic-hwe, kernel 5.3. will nvidia-340 continue to be supported on 20.04, after nvidia said they will no longer support 340 driver? if this is the wrong place, where do i ask? thanks [already asked in #ubuntu-kernel, sent here] | 20:17 |
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| mamarley | tseliot: tjaalton: You guys were discussing this a few days ago.^ | 20:20 |
| ohcanada | thx | 20:20 |
| tjaalton | ohcanada: well, it's possible that the stock xserver will be upgraded to a newer version which breaks the driver abi, so when that happens the nvidia driver would get uninstalled | 21:05 |
| ohcanada | right | 21:05 |
| tjaalton | previously any updates have been provided as a separate HWE stack | 21:06 |
| tjaalton | well not any updates, but backports from lts+1/2/3/4 | 21:06 |
| tjaalton | mesa is already a rolling update on lts | 21:06 |
| ohcanada | i don't really want hew in 20.04, just nvidia-340 support for 5 years. is that too much to ask? :) | 21:07 |
| ohcanada | *hwe | 21:07 |
| tjaalton | renaming it as -hwe-nn.nn was just too painful | 21:07 |
| tjaalton | well, maybe there could be a 'legacy' stack.. dunno. or an external source with the old xserver | 21:08 |
| tjaalton | but all of this would be for a single driver | 21:08 |
| ohcanada | a single driver that covers *lots* of legacy machines | 21:09 |
| ohcanada | obviously i can switch to nouveau. but i kinda got used to proprietary | 21:09 |
| ohcanada | anyways thanks for your input | 21:10 |
| tjaalton | it's not clear yet what'll happen, maybe in 6mo | 21:11 |
| ohcanada | roger that | 21:14 |
| tjaalton | I'm not sure what's the feature diff these days between the blob and nouveau.. especially for older hw like that | 21:45 |
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