[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 09:47:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> writes:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:26:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Hm, maybe I should go about this the other way around.
> 
> Of our current architectures, I'd say that the following are too old and
> too server-focused when they existed to have NVIDIA graphics cards:
> 
>     alpha hppa ia64 sparc
> 
dannf was using an nvidia chip on ia64, see e.g. #464068.

> and the following exist only on hardware that is fairly unlikely to have
> NVIDIA GPUs:
> 
>     s390
> 
> So that leaves:
> 
>     i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 armel mips mipsel powerpc
> 
> mips was the one that the original bug report was asking us to remove, so
> I'd be inclined to pull mips and mipsel and leave the rest.  I'm not sure
> armel should be there, but I can possibly see someone making a netbook
> with an NVIDIA GPU and an arm chip.
> 
I don't know if it's worth the hassle.  We build most X drivers,
including xserver-xorg-video-nv, on everything except s390 (because that
doesn't have any actual hardware, so just builds
xserver-xorg-video-dummy).

Cheers,
Julien
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