Add Linux 6.18.42 with proprietary Nvidia driver 580.178.04 #3402
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Upstream changes between the two stable releases: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/?qt=range&q=v6.18.15..v6.18.42
580.xx is the last branch supporting Maxwell, Pascal and Volta. From 590.xx on those GPUs are listed under the legacy driver instead, and the fleet still has GeForce GTX 980 Ti (GM200, Maxwell) in aros and heulsuse and Tesla V100 (GV100, Volta) in gameboycolor and hactar. So 580.xx is the newest branch that can be deployed for all cards. The GPU coverage is otherwise the same as in 570.144 — both start at Maxwell, Kepler stays on 470.xx — and the supported CUDA version grows from 12.8 to 13.0. Install libnvidia-nvvm70.so.4 explicitly. It is new in 580 and, like libnvidia-api.so.1, carries no 'PKGVERSION', so the loop over lib*.so.$PKGVERSION does not pick it up. https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/580.178.04/README/
570.144, used for the 6.12.x kernels, cannot be used here. Linux 6.18 dropped the deprecated EXTRA_CFLAGS from kbuild, and 570.144 still sets its include paths with it, so the conftests pass but the compilation then fails because the driver's own headers are no longer found. 580.178.04 uses ccflags-y and builds all five modules cleanly.
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Nvidia’s proprietary driver 580.178.04 supports CUDA 13, and our server GPUs.