x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: warn about the GSP default in 555

Looking at NVIDIA's forums, many are hitting regressions with this
and disabling fixes them. Feels unlikely everything will be resolved
before it goes out of beta and gets keyworded (unless default is
reverted), so it may help a few users to warn.

Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>

2 files changed, 53 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/nvidia-555.conf b/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/nvidia-555.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e0c1b09808f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/files/nvidia-555.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# NVIDIA drivers options
+# See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-*/README.txt* for more information.
+
+# nvidia-drivers and nouveau cannot be used at same time.
+# Comment out the following line if you wish to allow nouveau.
+blacklist nouveau
+
+# Kernel Mode Setting (notably needed for fbdev and wayland).
+# Enabling may possibly cause issues with SLI and Reverse PRIME.
+#options nvidia-drm modeset=1
+
+# Enable experimental framebuffer console support (^ requires modeset=1).
+# Replaces efifb or similar once loaded. Note that unloading nvidia modules
+# to, e.g. load a new version, would result in losing console display
+# (emphasis on being experimental, mode switch could cause issues with X).
+#options nvidia-drm fbdev=1
+
+# Disable use of the GSP firmware which has newly been enabled by default
+# for GPUs that support it (Turing/Ampere+ GPUs, aka GTX 1650+). Not
+# recommended unless experience regressions for which disabling helps.
+# Cannot be disabled if using USE="kernel-open".
+#options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
+
+# Suspend options. Allocations=0 recommended over =1 unless enable nvidia's
+# systemd sleep services (nvidia-hibernate, nvidia-resume, nvidia-suspend).
+options nvidia \
+	NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0 \
+	NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
+
+# !!! Security Warning !!!
+# Do not change the DeviceFile options unless you know what you are doing.
+# Only add trusted users to the 'video' group, these users may be able to
+# crash, compromise, or irreparably damage the machine.
+options nvidia \
+	NVreg_DeviceFileGID=@VIDEOGID@ \
+	NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 \
+	NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 \
+	NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1
+
+# Should be no need to touch anything below.
+alias char-major-195 nvidia
+alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
+remove nvidia modprobe -r --ignore-remove nvidia-drm nvidia-modeset nvidia-uvm nvidia
diff --git a/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-555.52.04.ebuild b/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-555.52.04.ebuild
index bd5205a9ad26..3d3eb15c1661 100644
--- a/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-555.52.04.ebuild
+++ b/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-555.52.04.ebuild
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 	use X || sed -i 's/"libGLX/"libEGL/' nvidia_{layers,icd}.json || die
 
 	# enable nvidia-drm.modeset=1 by default with USE=wayland
-	cp "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia-545.conf "${T}"/nvidia.conf || die
+	cp "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia-555.conf "${T}"/nvidia.conf || die
 	use !wayland || sed -i '/^#.*modeset=1$/s/^#//' "${T}"/nvidia.conf || die
 
 	# makefile attempts to install wayland library even if not built
@@ -499,4 +499,13 @@ pkg_postinst() {
 		elog "If you experience issues, either disable wayland or edit nvidia.conf."
 		elog "Of note, may possibly cause issues with SLI and Reverse PRIME."
 	fi
+
+	if use !kernel-open && [[ ${REPLACING_VERSIONS##* } ]] &&
+		ver_test ${REPLACING_VERSIONS##* } -lt 555
+	then
+		elog
+		elog "If using a Turing/Ampere+ GPU (aka GTX 1650+), note that >=nvidia-drivers-555"
+		elog "enables the use of the GSP firmware by default. *If* experience regressions,"
+		elog "please see '${EROOT}/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf' to optionally disable."
+	fi
 }