Bug#807579: [CUDA 7.5] patch version 7, driver is a potential blocker

[lumin]

On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 08:32 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On 14 February 2016 at 08:22, lumin <cdluminate at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or is there a way telling {dh_,dpkg-}shlibdeps to ignore libcuda.so.1 ?
> 
> I believe Andreas already worked around this in r6034.
> 
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia?view=revision&revision=6034

Oh wait, take a look at what I have found.

There is NO GeForce driver for ppc64el, but
there is *Tesla* driver for ppc64el !

TESLA DRIVER FOR LINUX POWER8
Version:	352.79
Release Date:	2016.2.1
Operating System: Linux POWER8
CUDA Toolkit:	7.5

There is a .run ball for ppc64el:
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/98333/en-us
direct download link:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Ubuntu/352.79/NVIDIA-Linux-ppc64le-352.79.run

These binary blobs are indeed provided:

libcuda.so.352.79           
libnvidia-cfg.so.352.79     
libnvidia-ml.so.352.79      
libnvidia-opencl.so.352.79  
libOpenCL.so.1.0.0          

So let's see how anbe think about this :-)