Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Severity: wishlist Control: submitter -1 jerome.kief...@esrf.fr
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Nvidia driver for PPC64le Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 21:22:41 +0200 From: Jerome Kieffer <jerome.kief...@esrf.fr> Organization: ESRF To: Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> CC: pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 17:28:27 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > On 30/08/2019 17.13, Jerome Kieffer wrote: > > Dear Debian Packagers, > > > > We are about to install a cluster of IBM Power9 and wonder about the best > > operating system ... Debian 10 looks the best but we are missing the > > nvidia driver. > > > > I did not find any reference for a ppc64le build of nvidia drivers in > > debian. Is this because the user base is too small > > Nobody asked for it so far ;-) That was also my feeling. > > or is there another reason ? > > As nvidia is distributing their driver for ubuntu, I guess re-packaging > > should not be that difficult as it is already a binary package. > > This would require repacking the drivers released for Ubuntu in a > similar way we create the ppc64el tarball for nvidia-cuda-toolkit. > Should not be too difficult, but nobody looked into it, yet. > > Please open a wishlist bug against src:nvidia-cuda-tookit, to better > keep track of progress. Thanks Andreas and the rest of the team for your work: for the last years the nvidia driver are perfectly packaged even on "elder" distributions and they work wonderfully on our numerous amd64 systems (many hundreeds computers). Concerning our "PowerPC setup", it is basically the same computers as in "Summit": https://www.top500.org/list/2019/06/ except we have fewer computers and less GPU per box. The driver is limited to "tesla" class chips targing GPU-computing, so there are no graphics driver. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/149943/en-us This PPC64le installer is much smaller (~35MB) than the amd64 one as there is no i386 nor any 32 bit version in it. Apparently, you have already packaged the cuda driver which contains the compiler for ppc64le. Here is the content of the installer-file which it probably close to what is found in the amd64 driver: 10_nvidia.json 10_nvidia_wayland.json html kernel libcuda.so.418.87.00 libEGL_nvidia.so.418.87.00 libEGL.so.1.1.0 libEGL.so.418.87.00 libGLdispatch.so.0 libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.418.87.00 libGLESv1_CM.so.1.2.0 libGLESv2_nvidia.so.418.87.00 libGLESv2.so.2.1.0 libGL.la libGL.so.1.7.0 libGL.so.418.87.00 libglvnd_install_checker libGLX_nvidia.so.418.87.00 libglxserver_nvidia.so.418.87.00 libGLX.so.0 libnvcuvid.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-cfg.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-eglcore.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.2 libnvidia-encode.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-fatbinaryloader.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-glcore.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-glsi.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-glvkspirv.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-gtk2.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-ml.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-opencl.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-opticalflow.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so.418.87.00 libnvidia-tls.so.418.87.00 libOpenCL.so.1.0.0 libOpenGL.so.0 libvdpau_nvidia.so.418.87.00 LICENSE makeself-help-script.sh makeself.sh mkprecompiled nvidia-application-profiles-418.87.00-key-documentation nvidia-application-profiles-418.87.00-rc nvidia-bug-report.sh NVIDIA_Changelog nvidia-cuda-mps-control nvidia-cuda-mps-control.1.gz nvidia-cuda-mps-server nvidia-debugdump nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf nvidia_drv.so nvidia.icd nvidia_icd.json.template nvidia-installer nvidia-installer.1.gz nvidia-modprobe nvidia-modprobe.1.gz nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced.1.gz nvidia-persistenced-init.tar.bz2 nvidia-settings nvidia-settings.1.gz nvidia-settings.desktop nvidia-settings.png nvidia-smi nvidia-smi.1.gz nvidia-xconfig nvidia-xconfig.1.gz pkg-history.txt README.txt Thanks for your help. With my best regards, Jérôme
