Re: Request for discussion: Maintaining NVIDIA 470 legacy driver support for future Debian releases

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:35:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
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Am 21.07.26 um 11:10 schrieb Walter Muller:
> I understand that maintaining an old proprietary driver requires
> significant effort, including applying compatibility patches, testing
> against newer kernels, and handling build issues. However, there are still
> users with older NVIDIA GPUs who would like to continue using Debian
> without switching to the Nouveau driver or replacing functional hardware.

This will be hard, as the kernel and X11/Wayland change over the time.
That means either the kernel needs to be modified or the binary driver 
(which is hard and IIRC not allowed according to their license).