1.0-9XXX Driver Speculations

[darktama]

It looks like a final 1.0-8XXX release may be squeezed in, I am still trying to confirm that.

Is this confirmation enough, from #nvidia on Sun 12 Aug (Australia time):

11:54 AaronP: +stillunknown_: Sorry, I was on the phone.
11:54 AaronP: +The driver is actually ready, we're just waiting for the web guys to post it to the website.
11:54 AaronP: +I would guess that it should happen sometime next week, but I can't make any guarantees.
11:55 strawman: +any idea what the version is, AaronP ?
11:57 AaronP: +8774
11:57 strawman: +thanks

[Patrick]

Thanks darktama- Has AaronP said anything about the changes?

[darktama]

Thanks darktama- Has AaronP said anything about the changes?

Not to my knowledge, but my guess is that it's the same as 1.0-8762 with the Xorg 7.1 ABI changes and possibly a couple of bugfixes.

[Michael]

...release will likely occur within a week of August 23, 2006

This still looks like it will hold true

[Michael]

Only one day off the prediction

[R3MF]

is there likely to be another ABI/API break between X.org 7.1 and 7.2 as happened between 7.0 and 7.1?

i ask because a major feature of the 9 series drivers is the GLX_rtp support, and a major feature of X.org 7.2 is improved XGL/AIGLX support.
therfore it would make sense to ensure that they will work together......

regards

[Michael]

is there likely to be another ABI/API break between X.org 7.1 and 7.2 as happened between 7.0 and 7.1?

i ask because a major feature of the 9 series drivers is the GLX_rtp support, and a major feature of X.org 7.2 is improved XGL/AIGLX support.
therfore it would make sense to ensure that they will work together......

regards

A driver update will likely be needed for X.Org v7.2.

The next NVIDIA Linux driver release should also support the MCP61 -- http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...41&postcount=4

[R3MF]

given that RC versions of X.org 7.2 will be out in Oct, and the final release due in early November, would it therefore make sense for nVidia to leave the 9 series driver till the same period so that it is API comliant with the latest release of X.org?

[Michael]

given that RC versions of X.org 7.2 will be out in Oct, and the final release due in early November, would it therefore make sense for nVidia to leave the 9 series driver till the same period so that it is API comliant with the latest release of X.org?

Not necessarily, but NVIDIA has been so unpredictable with their release schedule, you never know what will end up happening.

[R3MF]

there is some hope that SUSE 10.2 due in early December will include X.org 7.2 so there is a good reason for nVidia to ensure a compliant 9 series driver.

if 7.2 will break the API again, they could either:
1) make the 9 series drivers 7.2 compliant only, (after all, they have now released a 7.1 compliant driver already).
2) do an initial 9 series release for 7.1 and then rapidly do a recompile for 7.2 in order to quickly support post November distro releases.

whatever they do, i hope they don't do what they did for 7.1, i.e. ignore it for as long as they could.