NVIDIA graphics driver version format announcement

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 19:07:21 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
libGL.so.1 was a symlink in the old releases so I think its safe to say 
that it will be
a symlink to libGL.so.100.17
>>       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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