[20:17] <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]
[20:20] <mamarley> tseliot: tjaalton: You guys were discussing this a few days ago.^
[20:20] <ohcanada> thx
[21:05] <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
[21:06] <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
[21:07] <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
[21:08] <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
[21:09] <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
[21:10] <ohcanada> anyways thanks for your input
[21:11] <tjaalton> it's not clear yet what'll happen, maybe in 6mo
[21:14] <ohcanada> roger that
[21:45] <tjaalton> I'm not sure what's the feature diff these days between the blob and nouveau.. especially for older hw like that