Bug#976901: nvidia-tesla-450-kernel-dkms: Fails to build DKMS kernel module on ppc64le 450.80.02

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 important

This bug should not cause nvidia-cuda-toolkit to be removed from testing...

Did you ever have a working kernel/driver/toolkit combination?

On 12/10/20 5:05 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> I just installed 5.8 from buster-backports along with tesla-440 driver
> and it seems to give slightly better results,the modules build and load,
> but similar errors in kernel:

You could try the kernel from Debian stable ...

IIRC you had two GPUs in that machine, could you try with only one
installed?

I seem to remember reading that Ubuntu on ppc64el is in cuda 11.x no
longer a combination supported by nvidia. That makes it a bit more
difficult to find a setup that is supposed to work. But if it actually
works in some RHEL/CentOS environment, why shouldn't we get it runnning
on Debian as well?

I only found this footnote in
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/11.1.1/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html
  (4) Only Tesla V100 and T4 GPUs are supported for CUDA 11.2 on Arm64
(aarch64) POWER9 (ppc64le)

Andreas