<div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">It looks like Nvidia has 3 types of driver branches<br><br>New Feature Branch (NFB),<br>Production (PB),<br>Long Term Support Branch (LTSB)<br><br>|  architecture   |     gpu_examples     | 610 NFB | 595 Prod | 590 Prod | 580 LTSB | 575 NFB  | 570 Prod | 565 Prod | 560 Prod | 555 NFB  | 550 Prod |<br>|-----------------|----------------------|---------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|<br>| EOL date        |                      | TBD     | Mar 2027 | Dec 2026 | Aug 2028 | Jun 2026 | Jan 2026 | Oct 2025 | Aug 2025 | Jun 2025 | Apr 2025 |<br>| Blackwell Ultra | B300                 | ✓       | ✓        |          |          |          |          |          |          |          |          |<br>| Blackwell       | RTX 5090, B200       | ✓       | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |          |          |          |          |<br>| Hopper          | H100                 | ✓       | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Ada Lovelace    | RTX 4090, L40S       | ✓       | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Ampere          | RTX 3090, A100       | ✓       | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Turing          | RTX 2080, Tesla T4   | ✓       | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Volta           | Titan V, Tesla V100  |         |          |          | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Pascal          | GTX 1080, Tesla P100 |         |          |          | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br>| Maxwell         | GTX 980, Tesla M40   |         |          |          | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        | ✓        |<br><br><br>So we probably need the 580 LTSB in Forky.<br><br>Blackwell users will need nvidia-open-kernel-dkms (kernel module) and nvidia-graphics-drivers (userspace).<br>See: <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/">https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/</a><br>"For cutting-edge platforms such as NVIDIA Grace Hopper or NVIDIA Blackwell, you must use the open-source GPU kernel modules. The proprietary drivers are unsupported on these platforms."</font><br><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div></div>