Nvidia driver for PPC64le

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 30/08/2019 17.13, Jerome Kieffer wrote:
> Dear Debian Packagers,
> 
> We are about to install a cluster of IBM Power9 and wonder about the best
> operating system ... Debian 10 looks the best but we are missing the
> nvidia driver.
> 
> I did not find any reference for a ppc64le build of nvidia drivers in
> debian. Is this because the user base is too small

Nobody asked for it so far ;-)

> or is there another reason ?
> As nvidia is distributing their driver for ubuntu, I guess re-packaging
> should not be that difficult as it is already a binary package.

This would require repacking the drivers released for Ubuntu in a
similar way we create the ppc64el tarball for nvidia-cuda-toolkit.
Should not be too difficult, but nobody looked into it, yet.

Please open a wishlist bug against src:nvidia-cuda-tookit, to better
keep track of progress.


Andreas