Bug#1061269: nvidia-graphics-drivers: new upstream stable release 535.154.05

[Heikki Kallasjoki]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 09:33:16PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The beta 535.43.02 currently packaged in experimental has been superseded
> by a new "production branch" version 535.154.05.
>
> [...]
>
> I've attempted to update the packaging in
> <https://salsa.debian.org/nvidia-team/nvidia-graphics-drivers/-/merge_requests/8>.
> I don't have a testing/unstable machine with an Nvidia GPU, but it seems to
> work OK on bookworm.

As it happens, I've done (for my own use) pretty much identical changes
(with one exception, discussed below), and am using the resulting driver
with so far no problems on a Debian unstable machine with a GeForce 4070
SUPER series GPU.

The one exception is -- according to the "Supported Products" tab of 
<https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/driverResults.aspx/217862/en-uk>, the
535.154.05 driver does support the newly released GeForce RTX 4070
SUPER, but Nvidia seem not to have updated the PCI IDs listed in the
README.txt file in the driver download itself.

I've manually patched in the PCI IDs of the 4070 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER
and 4080 SUPER (respectively, 10DE:2783, 10DE:2705 and 10DE:2703). The
other two GPUs are not listed even on the "Supported Products" tab (they
had not been released yet at the time), and I don't have the
corresponding hardware, so they may or may not work; the driver binary
did seem to have references to all three IDs, though.

To be honest, I don't exactly know what the PCI ID lists extracted by
the packaging are being used for, so I don't know if updating them is
strictly speaking required. Just wanted to give it the best possible
chance of working.

-- 
Heikki Kallasjoki