Changelog
nvidia-graphics-drivers (396.18-1) experimental; urgency=medium
* New upstream beta 396.18 (2018-04-10).
- Added support for a new Vulkan SPIR-V compiler which reduces shader
compilation time and shader system memory consumption.
A new environment variable can be used to enable (1) (default) or
disable (0) the new compiler if errors in existing applications
are found:
__GL_NextGenCompiler=<int>
The following application profile setting with the same definition
is also available:
{ "pattern" : [], "profile" : [ "NextGenCompiler", <int> ] }
The old compiler is deprecated and will be removed in a future
release.
- Improved performance of the following Vulkan APIs:
vkAllocateMemory(), vkBindBufferMemory(), vkBindImageMemory().
- Fixed a bug that caused the NV_CTRL_STEREO_SWAP_MODE setting for
quad-buffered stereo visuals to not be preserved across modesets
or VT switches.
- Added a new global X configuration option "AllowExternalGpus", which
defaults to disabled, but can be enabled to allow eGPUs and other
surprise-removable GPUs to be configured with X screens.
* Drop support for Fermi chips, supported by the 390xx legacy series.
* Drop kernel and Xorg driver support for i386, drop all support for
armhf: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604
* New upstream release 390 series.
- Added support for the following GPUs: Quadro P3200, Quadro P4200.
* New upstream release 340 series.
- Improved nvidia-bug-report.sh to check for kern.log which is the default
kernel log-file location for many Debian-based Linux distributions.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* Update nv-readme.ids.
* Update libnvidia-egl-wayland ABI version to 1.0.3.
* Update symbols files.
* Add libnvidia-glvkspirv package for SPIR-V compiler support.
* Drop swiotlb.patch, merged upstream.
[ Andreas Beckmann ]
* Build i386 library packages from the 32/ folder in the x86_64 .run file.
* Continue building nvidia-egl-common and nvidia-egl-wayland-common on i386
and armhf since they are used by legacy drivers.
* Add NEWS entry and update nvidia-legacy-check to use
nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver for Fermi cards.
* Upload to experimental.
-- Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:59:45 +0200
