Bug#886852: NVidia driver : upgrade to version 384.111

[Julien Aubin]

Hi,

Tested w/ the following games :
Cities Skylines -> OK
F1 2017 (Vulkan Only) -> OK
Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor -> OK
Civilization V -> OK

All under KDE.

All is OK for me. :-)

2018-01-11 13:47 GMT+01:00 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>:

> On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 12:23 +0100, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > Le 11 janv. 2018 12:19, "Luca Boccassi" <bluca at debian.org> a écrit :
> >
> > On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 23:58 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > On 2018-01-10 15:25, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > I'm a little confused as what their blobs could possible have to
> > > > do
> > > > with spectre/meltdown to be honest
> > >
> > > meltdown does not seem to be an issue, but for spectre it is not
> > > neccessarily the GPU bits being fixed, but the CPU side of the
> > > driver
> > > -
> > > which can run untrusted user supplied code (e.g. compiling shaders)
> > > ...
> > > that could be comparable to the sandboxed javascript in the browser
> > > accessing all the browser memory.
> >
> > Ah I see, makes sense.
> >
> > > > - but in general it sounds like a
> > > > good idea to move 384 to stable-p-u, since it's won't be the last
> > > > CVE
> > > > we get and as you said 375 is dead and buried.
> > > >
> > > > Andreas, what do you think?
> > >
> > > Just uploaded to stretch-backports, will need to go through
> > > backports-new.
> > > Untested on my side - please try it out :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Andreas
> >
> > Thanks, will try it out later tonight and report back - I already had
> > manually built a locally merged version and it seemed to work fine so
> > I
> > don't expect issues.
> >
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > If there is something like bpo-new for the bpo repo (as well as
> > stable-proposed-updates exists) I would be happy to test as well.
> >
> > I prefer avoiding to build the packages myself in order to avoid
> > building
> > some kind of tainted package
>
> It was accepted into bpo, so you'll be able to install it from stretch-
> backports sometimes later today
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
>
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