Public bug reported:
Split firmware into separate package
* Currently gsp.bin is shipped by nvidia-kernel-common that pulls in
userspace dependencies and is required to match a particular driver
* This prevents co-installing LRM of different nvidia upstream releases
from different kernels, entangles them together for migration, and makes
it difficult to vendor LRM/drivers alone in the kernel snaps without any
userspace components.
* To address some or all of the above things we need to split gsp.bin
firmware into version specific package names, whilst keeping the
dependency on the new nvidia-firmware-#FLAVOUR#-#VERSION#. Then once all
dkms & lrms gain direct dependency on the nvidia-
firmware-#FLAVOUR#-#VERSION# we will be able to consider relaxing or
dropping dkms/lrm dependency on nvidia-kernel-common
* Even if we don't relax/drop the nvidia-kernel-common dependency down
the line these changes will enable easier packaging of kernel snaps, and
may allow in the future an easier reuse of gsp.bin by the open source
driver.
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2016888
Title:
Split firmware into separate package
Status in linux-restricted-modules package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Split firmware into separate package
* Currently gsp.bin is shipped by nvidia-kernel-common that pulls in
userspace dependencies and is required to match a particular driver
* This prevents co-installing LRM of different nvidia upstream
releases from different kernels, entangles them together for
migration, and makes it difficult to vendor LRM/drivers alone in the
kernel snaps without any userspace components.
* To address some or all of the above things we need to split gsp.bin
firmware into version specific package names, whilst keeping the
dependency on the new nvidia-firmware-#FLAVOUR#-#VERSION#. Then once
all dkms & lrms gain direct dependency on the nvidia-
firmware-#FLAVOUR#-#VERSION# we will be able to consider relaxing or
dropping dkms/lrm dependency on nvidia-kernel-common
* Even if we don't relax/drop the nvidia-kernel-common dependency down
the line these changes will enable easier packaging of kernel snaps,
and may allow in the future an easier reuse of gsp.bin by the open
source driver.
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