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| author | Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> | 2026-01-03 07:27:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-01-03 07:27:34 +0000 |
| commit | b4e7c457571f6241f3a4cf4cbff0db5160f03eeb (patch) | |
| tree | 8c3922186c9013c1072c93d1b32fdb15035621ee /UPDATING | |
| parent | eae444ae3fe0f25c046cbd8eb0878ee5eef06c91 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 39 |
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@@ -5,6 +5,45 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20260103: + AFFECTS: users of x11/nvidia-{driver, kmod}-devel variants + AUTHOR: junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp + + x11/nvidia-driver-devel and x11-nvidia-kmod-devel are upgraded to + latest New Feature Branch [NFB] of upstream driver package. + + This version drops support for a bunch of old (pre-Turing generations + of architecture) GPUs. + + You can find still supported GPUs below. + https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/590.48.01/README/supportedchips.html + + So anyone using -devel variants of related ports + x11/nvidia-kmod-devel + x11/nvidia-driver-devel + graphics/nvidia-drm-{510|515|61|66|latest}-kmod-devel + x11/linux-nvidia-libs-devel + with dropped GPUs needs to switch to non-devel master ports. + x11/nvidia-kmod + x11/nvidia-driver + graphics/nvidia-drm-{510|515|61|66|latest}-kmod + x11/linux-nvidia-libs + + Deinstalling -devel variants above and reinstalling master ports + above would do the right things. + + If any of above hesitates to upgrade with version conflicts + of graphics/eglexternalplatform, upgrade it first and retrying + failed ones should help. + + At the same time, 580.* and 590.* series of drivers for FreeBSD + now work with 2 additional libraries installed via graphics/egl-x11. + This is now one of the dependencies of x11/nvidia-driver{-devel}. + It would be automatically pulled in on upgrades. + + Note that new legacy branch -580 would be created once Production + Branch of upstream driver package switches to 590 series or later. + 20251228: AFFECTS: users of net/rsync AUTHOR: rodrigo@FreeBSD.org |
