[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#395243: please package the instrumented driver

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Wednesday, 25. October 2006 21:51:39 Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx
> Version: 1.0.8776-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> nVidia recently packaged NVPerfSDK for Linux:
>
>   http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvperfkit_home.html
>
> (Download link at the bottom.) To use it, however, one needs a special,
> instrumented driver (taking a 1-2% performance hit) to use it. The
> license seems to be the same, though, and the packaging is identical
> (except for a few extra libraries in /usr/lib), so including it
> shouldn't be very hard, save for version number skews.

With the improved support for packaging legacy versions in the nvidia-glx 
package it should be rather easy to create additional packages for 
instrumented driver, e.g. using names like nvidia-glx-instrumented-123xx. But 
the last release of the PerfKit for Linux is only 6.0 and comes with a dated 
173.13 driver (compared to 195.36.31 current stable and 256.25 beta), so I'm 
currently not looking into packaging the old version.

Andreas