Restrict upgrade of forwards-compatible driver
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Description
We currently only ship a single forwards-compatible CUDA driver, v12.3 as of right now, which means that even users with say a CUDA 11.4 driver get upgraded to 12.3. This may be unexpected, because it results in local artifacts being unusable.
We've currently made it so that using a local toolkit disables use of the fowards-compatible driver, but it would be better if we ship a driver for each major CUDA version, and select one based on the current driver version.
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No files or tests are named. Start by locating the code that selects the forwards-compatible CUDA driver, then determine how driver versions are detected and how per-major-version drivers could be packaged and selected. Done means users retain a compatible driver for their installed CUDA major version instead of being upgraded unconditionally to v12.3.
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