Bug#790809: Please enable ARM64 support

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Thu Jul 2 10:55:41 UTC 2015


)On 2015-07-02 03:20, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> [2015-07-01 14:17]:
>> This package is dependent on the proprietary nvidia driver, and
>> upstream currently only releases it for i386, amd64, and armhf
>> (armv7l) [1]. I don't think there's any point in building
>> nvidia-settings on arm64 until upstream also releases the
>> corresponding arm64 version of their proprietary driver.
> 
> Thanks for the link.  I didn't know where to check to see whether
> aarch64/arm64 binaries were available already.  I know that Tegra
> arm64 with Nvidia graphics is shipping already, but not sure about the
> driver.

If there is any way to get a driver for these things (even if not (yet)
via debian non-free) that (is supposed to) work with nvidia-settings, we
could of course enable this by default.
ppc64el would be a similar candidate:
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/85243/en-us

Andreas



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