On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:30:03PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> This post is an early notification to anyone that repackages the
> NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver.
>
> Starting in the Release 100 driver series, NVIDIA will revise the
> format of the version number for the UNIX Graphics Driver.
>
> In the past, the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver version format was
> "1.0-XXXX" (e.g., "1.0-9746"). Starting in Release 100, the new
> format will be a collection of period-separated fields (e.g.,
> "100.17.03").
>
> The left-most field will indicate the major release series ("Release
> 100", Release "105", etc.). The second field and optional third or
> additional fields will be used for NVIDIA tracking.
>
> The version number will be a variable number of fields, however it
> will consist only of digits and periods.
>
> This version format change will apply to both the package filenames,
> and the names of the libraries.
>
> Examples:
>
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.100.17
do you intend to do so with libGL.so.1, too? Because that would break
a lot of stuff and would render the nvidia-graphics libs not adequate
for in-place-substitutes for any system shipped libGL.so.1 anymore.
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.17-pkg1.run
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.17-pkg2.run
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-100.17.run
> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-100.17.tar.gz
>
> # glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version string"
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.17
>
> # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.17 Mon Feb 12
> 14:37:08 PST 2007
> GCC version: gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
>
> After the Release 100 driver series is released, we will make a
> similar change to the 1.0-96xx and 1.0-71xx legacy GPU release
> branches.
>
> Thanks,
> Lonni J Friedman
> NVIDIA Corp
>
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