[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#551096: Bug#551096: closed by Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> (Bug#551096: fixed in nvclock 0.8b4-2)

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Sun Jun 13 16:47:30 UTC 2010


Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:26:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Do you know if anything beyond that could use NVIDIA GPUs?  I was
>> assuming that powerpc, etc., just wouldn't have the hardware.

> Actually powerpc is probably the most likely to have this, apple sold
> macs with ati and nvidia graphics before switching to x86.  There are
> other archs with a PCI bus, but I'm not sure which ones exactly.

Hm, maybe I should go about this the other way around.

Of our current architectures, I'd say that the following are too old and
too server-focused when they existed to have NVIDIA graphics cards:

    alpha hppa ia64 sparc

and the following exist only on hardware that is fairly unlikely to have
NVIDIA GPUs:

    s390

So that leaves:

    i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 armel mips mipsel powerpc

mips was the one that the original bug report was asking us to remove, so
I'd be inclined to pull mips and mipsel and leave the rest.  I'm not sure
armel should be there, but I can possibly see someone making a netbook
with an NVIDIA GPU and an arm chip.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>





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