[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#551096: Bug#551096: closed by Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> (Bug#551096: fixed in nvclock 0.8b4-2)

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:26:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I stumbled upon this on debian-devel-changes...
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:36:09 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> 
> >>    [ Russ Allbery ]
> >>    * Only build on i386 and amd64, since this package is useless without
> >>      NVIDIA hardware.  (Closes: #551096)
> 
> > There are more architectures than x86 that can use nvidia gpus.  I think
> > this change should be reverted, unless nvclock requires using nvidia's
> > driver.
> 
> Hm, yeah, at least the kfreebsd-* ones should be added, shouldn't they?
> Sorry, I didn't think that all the way through.
> 
> Do you know if anything beyond that could use NVIDIA GPUs?  I was assuming
> that powerpc, etc., just wouldn't have the hardware.
> 
Actually powerpc is probably the most likely to have this, apple sold
macs with ati and nvidia graphics before switching to x86.  There are
other archs with a PCI bus, but I'm not sure which ones exactly.

Cheers,
Julien
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