Bug#887651: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.9.0-5-amd64 (i686)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 19:12 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-01-18 21:59, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > (Compiling now fails for the 32-bit, but I could reverse the
> > > > process if
> > > > needed, I guess.)
> > > 
> > > That is expected. We stopped shipping both amd64 and i386 blobs
> > > in
> > > the
> > > same package at the time when the amd64 kernel was removed from
> > > the
> > > i386
> > > architecture (because just the foreign amd64 kernel could be
> > > installed).
> > > 
> > > And given that noone has requested being able to be build modules
> > > for
> > > amd64 and i386 simultaneously, I'm not going investigate how to
> > > make
> > > this package M-A: same :-)
> 
> We could at least mention the supported blob architectures in the
> long
> Description. And we could reenable shipping i386+amd64 blobs for
> 304xx,
> given that this seems to be broken on i386, so it might be reasonable
> to
> expect i386 userspace with a amd64 kernel there ...
> 
> > Also the next series after 390 is going to drop i386 altogether so
> > not
> > much point...
> 
> Oh, where did you get that info from?
> 
> 
> Andreas

It was in the tech news a couple of weeks ago:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604/

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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