The plan for CUDA >= 12.4 after the stable release?

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 4/3/25 19:50, M. Zhou wrote:
> Hi anbe,
> 
> CUDA 12.4 marks ppc64el as deprecated:
> And CUDA 12.6 has no ppc64el at all:

> What is your future plan for the CUDA toolkit?

> My guess is that we will stay at CUDA 12.2 for the upcoming stable release.
> After the stable release we can upgrade to later CUDA versions.
> 
> If my guess is correct, I will start to gradually remove the ppc64el
> architecture from packages maintained by me, including my packages
> relying on CUDA, and other nvidia related packages like nvidia-cudnn.

My plan is to switch to 12.4 with 550 driver for trixie. And the default 
compiler to GCC 13.
CUDA will remain ppc64 support for now, but with relaxed driver 
dependencies on ppc64el. Last ppc64el supporting driver is 
src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-550 in sid (won't be in trixie).
ppc64el driver support was removed from src:nvidia-graphics-drivers in 
sid, experimental, bookworm and will happen for 
src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-535 soon.

I'll drop ppc64el cuda support once I get to newer cuda releases 
post-trixie.


Andreas