HEADSUP: nvidia is going to drop supports for old GPUs

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T-Aoki

As you can see at commit ports b4e7c457571f6241f3a4cf4cbff0db5160f03eeb, nvidia drops supports for old GPUs prior to Turing generation of architectures on 590 series and later drivers.
Anyone using -devel variant of drivers ports on old GPUs need to switch to parent (aka master) ports without -devel suffix. Currently other variants are NOT affected.

You can see which GPUs are still supported on 590.48.01 here.

Once nvidia releases 590 series or later drivers as Production Branch (PB) of their drivers and lands onto ports tree, new legacy branch -580 is planned to be created at the same time.
As far as I've notified, nvidia would keep 580 series of drivers as their Legacy Branch of drivers after 590 or later becomes PB.

Note that new quarterly 2026Q1 is not yet branched when the commit above landed, upcoming 2026Q1 quarterly should have 590.48.01 New Feature Branch (NFB) of driver as -devel variant from the beginning.
 
And here I am still on a 9600 GT. Heh.

I did buy a RTX 5060 cause it had a deep price drop cause I'm cheap frugal. I need to install it before the end of the month to make sure it works and don't need to send it back. Then I need to upgrade to 15.0.
 
It's the reason I'm sticking with nvidia GPUs and working on maintaining ports for it.
Hope AMD and Intel to at least provide in which (Linux) version of driver their specific GPUs (CPUs for iGPUs) works or not with easy-to-determine way by themselves. Of course would be best they provide FreeBSD native drivers at the same timing Linux versions are released.
 
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