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Update NVIDIA drivers up to version 550.x #406

Open maxpain opened 1 month ago

maxpain commented 1 month ago

Hello.

Current NVIDIA drivers in Talos are quite outdated. 535.129.03 version has been released six months ago. This version has CUDA 12.2, which is a problem for some new software, such as ffmpeg v7.

Is there any ETA for upgrading it to the latest 550.x branch?

smira commented 1 month ago

There is no ETA at the moment, but update will happen at some point before the next Talos release.

frezbo commented 1 month ago

Also updating to latest nvidia seems to break enterprise users, so we follow caution in updating nvidia drivers

smira commented 1 month ago

Also updating to latest nvidia seems to break enterprise users, so we follow caution in updating nvidia drivers

I think with this update we should also support older drivers (need to figure out extension names vs. Talos upgrades), but basically provide both 535 and 550 for Talos 1.8.

frezbo commented 1 month ago

Yes, we should figure this out

maxpain commented 1 month ago

Theoretically, can we add some option to choose the extension version in factory.talos.dev?

smira commented 1 month ago

No, you can use imager if you want your own custom image. And for NVIDIA it's anyways locked to the kernel build, so it won't work for a different version of Talos