Windows update provides driver notifications. In particular the last 2
"official" WHQL nvidia drivers won't work with GPUgrid, so you wouldn't want to
"endorse" a version until its been tested. The last thing you want is everybody
to upgrade and find out that it doesn't work.
Certain projects do notify that there are updated versions of BOINC available.
This gets logged with the other messages. Seti is one of these projects. I
guess it depends on what version of the server software they are running as to
if the feature is there and if the project has it enabled or not.
Maybe we could use the new RSS news feed (when its available) to notify users
of updated drivers and/or BOINC versions.
Cheers,
MarkJ
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:40:47 -0300
From: Nicol?s Alvarez <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Trac #28 updater suggestion
To: [email protected]
Cc: Jack Lambert <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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El Jue 25 Jun 2009 23:56:11 Jack Lambert escribi?:
> I know this has already been suggested, but I really think that BOINC
> should make it a priority to make a simple, GUI update and/or download
> manager within the boinc manager like firefox etc, do. It should
> probably be off be default, but imo there should at least be an option
> to enable some sort of auto-downloader to get new versions of boinc
> (by which I mean the client, the manager and all associated files).
> The download itself would have to respect all of the network
> preferences (day of week overrides etc.). The downloader could just
> deposit the new version of boinc in an arbitrary folder somewhere so
> the user could install it on their own later. The other thing is that
> it would be helpful to boinc's CUDA users if they were notified when
> they have an out-of-date gpu driver/if Nvidia has released a new one
> for their platform.
It's up to nVidia to notify of updates to the drivers.
And I think it's up to the operating system to provide a global way for
programs to notify of updates, like it's already done in almost every Linux
distribution.
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