Provide driver for muslc, to install it in musl distros

anon59596785 · July 3, 2022, 10:43am

NVIDIA, PLEASE provide a driver that is compatible with the musl library. You just need to compile your drivers with different flags and people can use them in e.g. Alpine Linux. Let them be unofficial, but at least this way. I don’t think it’s that hard to do.

References:

github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

Provide driver for muslc, to install it in musl distros

opened 09:59PM - 13 May 22 UTC

closed 11:28PM - 13 May 22 UTC

TheMBL09898

enhancement

Please provide driver for musl. It would make installing the nvidia drvers possi…ble on Alipne Linux, or other distributions using musl, such as my Gentoo Linux with musl profile. As far as I know you only need to compile it with musl, it isn't that big of a deal. People have been asking for this since 2019 in your github at least, and now that you've "open-sourced" your drivers I think you should be able to do this as well. Reference: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-installer/issues/10

amrits · July 3, 2022, 2:02pm

Thanks for giving input, I will check internally with team about the possibility and get back to you.

anon59596785 · July 4, 2022, 4:51pm

Thanks, I’ll be waiting for your reply

robertrussell.72001 · July 9, 2022, 5:32pm

I’m also very interested in having musl-compatible drivers.

anon59596785 · July 20, 2022, 10:21am

It’s been over two weeks, is there any news?

robertrussell.72001 · August 21, 2022, 7:16pm

Any update on this?

amrits · August 22, 2022, 3:37pm

We had discussed internally about the requested feature and it is not going to be implemented at this moment.
Thank you for the understanding and apologizes for not considering the request at this moment.

anon59596785 · August 22, 2022, 4:14pm

Sadly… I will hope for improvement in nouveau.
Please improve at least the Wayland support (especially sway), it is terrible.

razblack · January 26, 2023, 9:49pm

I would also like to see support for musl libc, not sure why this is not epic… (i don’t think this is a feature request) ;)

Alpine Linux makes for great containers… low overhead, quick startups.

being able to tap into nvidia cuda cores for data science and other compute operations would be a huge benefit to developers and ideal in data centers.

chris.arvanis · July 21, 2023, 1:18pm

The Docker world is absolutely begging for you to do this. There are so many great Alpine-based containers of applications that have GPU capabilities to greatly enhance their functionality. They’re going to waste and are at a huge disadvantage. Don’t you think it’s time?

It may seem like there are not a lot of vocal users on this subject, that’s because they’re all in countless open-source project communities and discord/matrix servers that you’ll never see out in the open. Make no mistake, this is a huge frustration across all communities.

magickarle · September 5, 2023, 12:10pm

Same thing here. 2X RTX 4000. Can’t be fully utilized. Nouveau drivers is very limited. Can’t use nvidia-docker2

chris.arvanis · January 3, 2024, 4:09am

It’s 2024 now and still nothing :(. Great Alpine based containers with AI functionality just wasting away. And all forms of Linux are seeing a huge push these days thanks to Valve and ridiculous privacy laws along with a surge in self-hosting applications for the same reasons. Crazy Nvidia isn’t trying to dominate every one of them.

Wayland will see HDR support before Alpine even gets a driver makeable by a few clicks at this rate. Straight insanity