Bug#889669: nvidia-graphics-drivers: solve the upgrade problem

[Michael Schaller]

> How would the switch-at-boot mechanism work?
The basic idea for the switch-at-boot mechanism is that it would check the
version of the loaded NVIDIA kernel module (/sys/module/nvidia/version) on
boot and then select the matching user space version (via
update-alternatives) before anything attempts to use it.

> Seeing your email address domain - any chance your company could use
> its gargantuan soft-power to get Nvidia to publish the specs for the
> missing parts of Nouveau (reclocking, power managerment, etc)? That
> would solve all our problems once and for all :-P
I wished but that sounds like deep lawyer cat territory and I very much
prefer to work on a technical solution. ;-)
I've just asked though if the version lock between the NVIDIA kernel
modules and user-space components really needs to be so strict. Let's see
how that goes...

> We should probably postpone this to post-390.xx if nvidia sticks to
> their plan to drop i386 driver support ...
That's the first time I've heard about that. Do you have further
information about that (link is fine). I also wonder how that will impact
projects that depend on i386 support like for an instance Wine.