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Description of changes:

Update NVIDIA Tesla drivers to the latest versions:

  • r570: 570.211.01
  • r580: 580.126.09

Release notes:

Testing done:

Tested on EKS clusters with Bottlerocket NVIDIA variants:

  • Kernel 6.1 with r570 (570.211.01) - EKS 1.32

  • Kernel 6.1 with r580 (580.126.09) - EKS 1.32

  • Kernel 6.12 with r570 (570.211.01) - EKS 1.34

  • Kernel 6.12 with r580 (580.126.09) - EKS 1.34

  • Details for Kernel 6.12 with r580 (580.126.09)

##############################################
# CLUSTER 1.34 - KERNEL 6.12
# Bottlerocket: aws-k8s-1.34-nvidia
##############################################

=== NVIDIA-SMI ===
Mon Jan 19 11:29:21 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.09             Driver Version: 580.126.09     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:10:1C.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   34C    P0             52W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   1  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:10:1D.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   34C    P0             55W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   2  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:20:1C.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   34C    P0             51W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   3  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:20:1D.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   33C    P0             54W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   4  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:90:1C.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   35C    P0             54W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   5  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:90:1D.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   33C    P0             53W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   6  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:A0:1C.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   35C    P0             53W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   7  NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB          On  |   00000000:A0:1D.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   34C    P0             53W /  400W |       0MiB /  40960MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |             Disabled |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

=== NVIDIA Driver Version ===
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  580.126.09  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AM02-24-3)  Wed Jan  7 22:51:36 UTC 2026
GCC version:  gcc version 13.3.0 (Buildroot 2024.11.1)

=== Kernel Version ===
Linux version 6.12.63 (builder@buildkitsandbox) (x86_64-bottlerocket-linux-gnu-gcc (Buildroot 2024.11.1) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.43.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 15 20:20:06 UTC 2026

=== Loaded NVIDIA Modules ===
nvidia_modeset 1757184 0 - Live 0xffffffffc1bd2000 (OE)
video 77824 1 nvidia_modeset, Live 0xffffffffc0b6b000
nvidia_uvm 1998848 4 - Live 0xffffffffc19bd000 (OE)
nvidia 13967360 195 nvidia_modeset,nvidia_uvm, Live 0xffffffffc0b8d000 (OE)
drm 753664 1 nvidia, Live 0xffffffffc088e000
i2c_core 122880 4 nvidia,i2c_piix4,i2c_smbus,drm, Live 0xffffffffc07fd000
backlight 28672 3 nvidia_modeset,video,drm, Live 0xffffffffc0799000

=== NVIDIA kmod files ===
/host/lib/modules/6.12.63/kernel/drivers/extra/video/nvidia/open-gpu/nvidia-modeset.ko
/host/lib/modules/6.12.63/kernel/drivers/extra/video/nvidia/open-gpu/nvidia-uvm.ko
/host/lib/modules/6.12.63/kernel/drivers/extra/video/nvidia/open-gpu/nvidia.ko
/host/lib/modules/6.12.63/kernel/drivers/extra/video/nvidia/open-gpu/nvidia-peermem.ko
/host/lib/modules/6.12.63/kernel/drivers/extra/video/nvidia/open-gpu/nvidia-drm.ko

Verified:

  • nvidia-smi reports correct driver version
  • NVIDIA kernel modules load successfully
  • GPUs detected and operational

Terms of contribution:

By submitting this pull request, I agree that this contribution is dual-licensed under the terms of both the Apache License, version 2.0, and the MIT license.

@mgsharm mgsharm merged commit e05da3e into bottlerocket-os:develop Jan 20, 2026
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