maintainer-approval requested: [Bug 296445] x11/nvidia-kmod-580, x11/nvidia-driver-580, x11/linux-nvidia-libs-580, graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod-580: Update to 580.173.02 : [Attachment 272369] Patch to upgrade 580 series to 580.173.02

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Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> has asked freebsd-x11 (Nobody)
<[email protected]> for maintainer-approval:
Bug 296445: x11/nvidia-kmod-580, x11/nvidia-driver-580,
x11/linux-nvidia-libs-580, graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod-580: Update to 580.173.02
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296445

Attachment 272369: Patch to upgrade 580 series to 580.173.02
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=272369&action=edit



--- Description ---
Update Legacy version 580 series of drivers to 580.173.02.

As NVIDIA still doesn't provide any info for legacy 580 series
directly under usual Unix Driver Archive page here,

  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

found by periodical confirmation for "Archive" links there.

  https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/
  https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/


No "Release Highlights" are provided, but in NVIDIA_Changelog
stored in the upstream tarball:

======== Release 580 Entries ========

    * Fixed a bug that caused delayed wakeups when multiple threads wait on the
      same Vulkan semaphore, leading to stutter and reduced performance in some
      applications

    * Fixed a bug that could cause black screens after modesets in X11
      applications using the Present extension.

    * Fixed an issue where OpenGL buffers allocated with glBufferStorage and no
      storage flags were allowed to migrate from GPU memory to host memory.


For Linux counterpart:

======== Release 580 Entries ========

    * Fixed a bug that could prevent DKMS kernel module builds from succeeding
      after installing with nvidia-installer.

    * Fixed a bug that caused delayed wakeups when multiple threads wait on the
      same Vulkan semaphore, leading to stutter and reduced performance in some
      applications

    * Fixed a bug that could cause black screens after modesets in X11
      applications using the Present extension.

    * Fixed an issue where OpenGL buffers allocated with glBufferStorage and no
      storage flags were allowed to migrate from GPU memory to host memory.
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