[Mageia-dev] NVIDIA CUDA 5 has landed

Fri Dec 14 22:08:35 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+Finally, NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 5.0.35 has landed in Cauldron. I apologize
+for the delay, and ask everyone interested to test the packages
+(especially on x86_64).
+
+New in packaging:
+=================
+
+* From now on, we are using SLES official packages, because others
+(Ubuntu, Fedora) contain cuda-gdb binary that is linked against
+libtinfo.so.5 that we do not ship;
+* those lame /usr/{nvvm,open64,libnvvp,libnsight} are moved to the
+appropriate place, namely %_libdir;
+* samples (ex-CUDA SDK) have been included.
+
+New in CUDA 5.0:
+================
+
+* NVIDIA Nsight, a full-featured CUDA IDE, based on Eclipse CDT;
+* dynamic parallelism - simply speaking, ability to spawn new kernels
+from kernels;
+* more here:
+http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html
+
+Known issues:
+=============
+
+* GCC 4.7 is not supported. However, you can fool nvcc and compile a
+program with -D__GNUC_MINOR__=6;
+* In Eclipse based products, you may notice that toolbar buttons don't
+respond to mouse hover (look flat all the time). This is a well-known
+issue and will be fixed in the upcoming release of
+gnome-themes-standard;
+* Eclipse-based products are unable to open web browser due to crash in
+libxul.so (should we update xulrunner?)
+
+The work on the package is still not finished. The package contains an
+init script (nvidia) that creates device nodes and loads kernel module.
+This "service" is intended to be started on GUI-less compute nodes. I
+want to ask for assistance in migrating this script to systemd unit. As
+far as I know, with latest kernels and NVIDIA drivers the device nodes
+always get created automatically (never noticed them not being
+created). So probably the only thing left is to load kernel module.
+Seems like putting it into modules-load.d/* is a bad idea, because if
+the module is absent, systemd-modules-load.service will fail. Should we
+simply make a unit with ExecStart=/usr/sbin/modprobe nvidia-current instead?
+
+Also I'd like to thank Pascal Terjan who helped me to upload a part of
+source. Uploading another 700 MBytes took me 2 hours - that was painful.
+I remember there was a proposal to provide packagers with their
+dedicated VMs with shell accounts on a build cluster - what's the status
+of that?
+
+Regards,
+Dimitri
+
+