[elrepo] nvidia K1 issue

[Phil Perry]

On 25/07/17 17:12, Steve Cleveland wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/24/2017 11:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>> Brilliant!
>>
>> Yes, the blacklist for K1/K2 devices no longer supported were added to 
>> later 375.xx series releases and earlier releases were removed from 
>> the repository for exactly this reason.
>>
>> Older versions are always available in the archive.
> 
> I greatly appreciate all of the work you put into maintaining this 
> stuff.  nvidia certainly doesn't make it easy.  I support approximately 
> 600 desktops, most having nvidia GPUs.  It would be much more difficult 
> without your tools.  I'm able to use nvidia-detect and puppet together 
> to make sure the correct nvidia packages are installed.
> 
> In the case of the K1 that does cause a slight issue.  nvidia-detect 
> returns a '6' code, which equates to the (currently) non-existent 367xx 
> packages.  After your information, in puppet I'm treating '6' and '1' 
> the same and installing kmod-nvidia.  But I'm not sure what the best 
> approach is.  I understand you don't want to return a '1' for the K1 as 
> it's not really using the 'current' driver.  But installing kmod-nvidia 
> is the correct solution for now.  But returning a package that doesn't 
> exist isn't ideal either.
> 
> I'm sorry I don't really have an answer (other than my own work-around), 
> but I wanted to make sure you're aware of the issue. Not sure there are 
> enough K1 cards out there to worry about.  I only have the one, so you 
> don't need to make sweeping changes on my account.
> 
>   - Steve
> 

Hi Steve,

I've built and pushed 367xx legacy packages for el7 to the elrepo 
*testing* repository. The following files are syncing to the mirrors and 
should be available shortly:

kmod-nvidia-367xx-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-367xx-kmod-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-367xx-32bit-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-367xx-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-367xx-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

These are a fork of the last 367.57 driver, with the package name 
changed from kmod-nvidia to kmod-nvidia-367xx etc. I have also rebuilt 
the kmod package against the latest rhel7 kernel, but in all other 
respects the packages should be identical.

I have not tested these packages, hence why they are initially in the 
testing repository. Please could you test and confirm they work as 
expected for you. They should now work in conjunction with nvidia-detect 
as expected in your puppet setup.

If you are happy the packages are OK, I'll fork and build the el6 
versions, and get these promoted to the main repository.

Thanks for your help, and again my apologies for messing up your install 
methodology.

Regards,

Phil