Precompiled NVIDIA driver images are not available for Garden Linux versions 1877.4 and 1877.10

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Precompiled NVIDIA driver images are not available for Garden Linux versions 1877.4 and 1877.10, which are the current versions deployed in SAP Kyma Runtime (managed Kubernetes on SAP BTP). This makes it impossible to deploy the NVIDIA GPU Operator using the precompiled driver approach on these environments.

Property	Value
Kubernetes version	v1.33.7
GPU Operator version	v25.10.1
Garden Linux versions	1877.4, 1877.10
Kernel versions	6.12.47-cloud-amd64, 6.12.66-cloud-amd64
Platform	SAP Kyma Runtime (managed, AWS EC2)
GPU instance types	g4dn.xlarge (NVIDIA T4)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Provision an SAP Kyma Runtime cluster with GPU-enabled worker nodes (Garden Linux 1877.4 or 1877.10)
2. Follow the SAP Kyma GPU Operator deployment guide at https://github.com/SAP-samples/kyma-runtime-samples/tree/main/gpu
3. Deploy the GPU Operator using the provided values.yaml with usePrecompiled: true and version: 570
4. Observe nvidia-driver-daemonset pods stuck in ImagePullBackOff

Error

Failed to pull image "ghcr.io/gardenlinux/gardenlinux-nvidia-installer/driver:570-6.12.66-cloud-amd64-gardenlinux0": 
failed to resolve image: not found

Root Cause

The operator attempts to pull precompiled driver images matching the node's exact kernel version. After checking all available tags in this registry, the latest available images for the 570 driver branch only cover up to:

• Garden Linux 1877.2 / kernel 6.12.40
• Garden Linux 1592.12 / kernel 6.6.101

No images exist for:

• Garden Linux 1877.4 / kernel 6.12.47
• Garden Linux 1877.10 / kernel 6.12.66

Request

Could precompiled driver images be published for the following combinations?

Garden Linux Version	Kernel	Driver Branch
1877.4	6.12.47-cloud-amd64	570
1877.10	6.12.66-cloud-amd64	570

These are the current Garden Linux versions deployed by SAP Kyma Runtime and are likely to affect other users on this platform.