Introduce WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option, which sticks us to previous

version of NVidia driver release for the sake of supporting some "legacy"
GPUs.  Note that this options is unsupported, and presumably would only be
needed for a few unlucky souls out there.

PR:		ports/82758

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index dcd6ce419a0f..a90b9425a6d2 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each
 time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port
 upgrades.
 
+20050630:
+  AFFECTS: users of x11/nvidia-driver
+  AUTHOR: danfe@FreeBSD.org
+
+  Due to several complaints, new (unsupported) option had been added to port
+  Makefile: WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT.  Starting with version 7667, NVidia has
+  dropped support for numerous "legacy" GPUs, while this option allows to go
+  with previous version of driver (this does not apply to older versions of
+  FreeBSD, since you have to use version 6113 of driver (if you did not yet
+  upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3 or later) which has support for those GPUs).
+
+  If you must use WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option, be sure to ``hold'' the
+  package by making appropriate entry in your pkgtools.conf, otherwise
+  portupgrade(1) will upgrade your port to latest NVidia release on the
+  next run, which is probably not what you want.
+
+  Refer to x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile for further details.
+
 20050624:
   AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
   AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org