Main Inclusion Report for nvidia-modprobe

Requirements

1. Availability: available for i386 and amd64

2. Rationale:

   • This package is needed as a dependency of nvidia-graphics-drivers-* and of nvidia-graphics-drivers-*-updates (main), so that applications making use of CUDA or Nvidia's OpenCL ICD can load the nvidia-uvm driver without requiring root access.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: none

   • Secunia history: none

   • Ubuntu CVE's: none

4. Quality assurance:

   • Works out of the box without configuration
   • No debconf questions

   • Debian bugs: none

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

   • Upstream is vigorous

5. UI standards:

   • None.

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy 3.9.6 compliant

7. Dependencies:

   • libc6 (main)

8. Maintenance:

   • Debian responsible for bugs.

9. Background information:

   • From LP: #1361207: nvidia-modprobe allows non-root users to load NVIDIA kernel modules and it creates the respective device entries. This is important for CUDA users as they would otherwise have to run a workaround script to load the kernel modules and create the device entries. This is documented here:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/6_5/rel/docs/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf -> 4.8 Verification

Reviewers

MIR bug: LP: #1421209