NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
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    NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver

    Phoronix: NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver

    Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

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  • aviallon
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2022
    • 292

    #2
    I really do hope someone will leak a signed reclocking-capable firmware for theses generations of GPUs… or someone does something à la libdvdcss style, where the firmware signature is bruteforced automatically on the first GPU usage. Which could help sidestep some laws (at least in France, it would be covered by Videolan's case for libdvdcss)

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    • SteamPunker
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2014
      • 203

      #3
      Originally posted by aviallon View Post
      I really do hope someone will leak a signed reclocking-capable firmware for theses generations of GPUs… or someone does something à la libdvdcss style, where the firmware signature is bruteforced automatically on the first GPU usage. Which could help sidestep some laws (at least in France, it would be covered by Videolan's case for libdvdcss)
      I was thinking the same thing. That's the problem with this particular range of generations being deprecated: too new to allow for unsigned firmware, but too old to have a GSP. If NVIDIA rotates the signing key per generation or at least periodically (as they should), perhaps they could be convinced to publish the signing keys for these older generation GPUs, so that Nouveau could be made to fully support those cards going forward.

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      • Vorpal
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2020
        • 403

        #4
        Time to replace the 1070 in my desktop I guess (since I run Arch, I will get new kernels, and the legacy drivers are likely to break).

        Thing is, I don't really game any more. I do use CAD sometimes though for 3d printing. My desktop doesn't have any integrated graphics, so I do need a card to get video at all. So I'm wondering if an Intel GPU would work. Either that or a budget AMD card I guess. Time to start reading up on what is the best bang for buck these days.

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        • avis
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2022
          • 2252

          #5
          Dropping the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta support
          Technically those are going to be moved to legacy support, they will not stop being supported altogether.

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          • ayumu
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2008
            • 660

            #6
            Poor Volta.

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            • yoshi314
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 1299

              #7
              Originally posted by avis View Post

              Technically those are going to be moved to legacy support, they will not stop being supported altogether.
              that's the first step. at some point nvidia just stops updating older driver lines.

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              • Hibbelharry
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2009
                • 627

                #8
                At least Geforce 10x0 users get a driver thats usable with Wayland without too many caveats for the moment, unlike Kepler and before. At least as long as users don't try to go on using newest kernels. Nvidia legacy drivers and new versions of major desktop stack components have always been a pain, waiting game or dead end...

                Need 390.xx or older legacy drivers? Good luck.

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                • Phil995511
                  Phoronix Member
                  • Aug 2021
                  • 108

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Vorpal View Post
                  Time to replace the 1070 in my desktop I guess (since I run Arch, I will get new kernels, and the legacy drivers are likely to break).

                  Thing is, I don't really game any more. I do use CAD sometimes though for 3d printing. My desktop doesn't have any integrated graphics, so I do need a card to get video at all. So I'm wondering if an Intel GPU would work. Either that or a budget AMD card I guess. Time to start reading up on what is the best bang for buck these days.
                  If you configure Arch to use an LTS kernel you won't have any problems with a Nvidia GPU... But as you say, with a very recent kernel, the Nvidia driver sometimes needs to be updated to work.

                  Intel GPUs are apparently only slightly more powerful than your NV 1070... An AMD card seems more suitable to me.

                  But if you're not gaming anymore, why not just keep your current GPU and do something more constructive for yourself with your money ?!

                  Regards

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                  • geerge
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2023
                    • 358

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ayumu View Post
                    Poor Volta.
                    Shame upvoting is disabled

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