Please Update Changelog for huge 550.90.07 code dump about open-gpu-kernel-modules HOT 2 OPEN

Hi!

Thanks for checking in. We don't currently have a good process to maintain this in-tree changelog unfortunately. The driver release on nvidia.com will go up soon, along with the official release notes.

from open-gpu-kernel-modules.

To elaborate a bit, we actually have two sets of changelogs (for reasons) that mostly list different things. Most driver changes that get a changelog entry (and not many do) will get listed on the driver release page. For 550.90.07 that's https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/226768/en-us/ and it says:

• Temporarily disabled the GLX_EXT_buffer_age extension on Xwayland to work around a bug that could cause corruption.
• Fixed a bug that could cause corruption when the GLX_EXT_buffer_age extension is used on X.org with PRIME render offloading.
• Improved the ability of nvidia-modprobe to detect whether kernel modules are already loaded. This corrects an issue that prevented nvidia-persistenced from setting persistence mode on some systems.
• Fixed a bug that could cause additional X screens to claim displays that should have been assigned to a prior X screen based on the given X configuration.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to crash when graphics applications requested single-buffered drawables while certain features (such as Vulkan sharpening) are enabled.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to a kernel panic, due to a failure to release a spinlock under some conditions.
• Fixed a race condition which could lead to crashes when Xid errors occur concurrently on multiple GPUs.

These include entries that relate to any part of the driver stack. Then, we have https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md which is mostly for entries referring to Issues or PRs made on this repo, or things that are otherwise tightly coupled with the kernel module source code.

I don't imagine this duplication will survive much longer once these open modules become the default driver mode, but until then the best way to get the idea of what changed (short of reading the diff) is to read both changelogs.

from open-gpu-kernel-modules.