[elrepo] Centos 7.6 nvidia issue

[Phil Perry]

On 04/12/2018 22:54, Ken Bass wrote:
> On 12/4/18 4:54 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 04/12/2018 20:12, Ken Bass wrote:
>>>
>>
>> The confusion comes from the fact that not all GT730's are created 
>> equally. Some GT730 cards are based on older, now unsupported, 
>> Fermi-based hardware, whilst others are based on newer Kepler-based 
>> hardware. For example:
> 
> Ahh, I see. That is confusing, because I assumed while searching for 
> drivers it was the 700 series. But Fermi architecture is actually the 
> 400 series. I assume we can blame the marketing people for these types 
> of things.
> 
> After you mentioned this I searched and saw on nvidia "Critical security 
> updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019." So 
> does that mean starting next month and with future centos versions (7.7) 
> there will no longer be a 390xx driver? Or it will still be rebuilt but 
> not updated?
> 

 From here:

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142

The Linux 390.* legacy driver series is the last to support GF1xx 
("Fermi") GPUs.  Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as 
fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 390.* legacy releases 
through the end of 2022.

We will continue to update and build upstream driver releases as long as 
they are relevant/supported on RHEL7, so at least until end of 2022. So 
you have at least another 4 years of support, taking you close to EoL 
for RHEL7.