RTX 5060 Ti eGPU (AORUS AI BOX) — CUDA hard-lock on Linux via Thunderbolt 4

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• Blackwell GPUs are known to be extremely unstable when connected as TB eGPUs: see egpu.io forum for dozens of reports
• PCIe tunneling over TB5 is itself unstable on Linux, see for example my report here: Loading GSP firmware from an AMD Strix laptop to a TB5 3090 eGPU causes instant reboot
• one guy reported that he managed to get it stabilized on an Intel host by patching the NV modules, you can see details here: 2023 14″ Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 [13th,10C,U] + RTX 5080 @ 32Gbps-TB4>TB5 (Sonnet Breakaway 850 T5) + Linux Rocky 10.1 // 590.48.01 open driver patch required | External GPU Builds