On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 14:11, Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Em dezembro 4, 2020 10:04 Emil Velikov escreveu: > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 12:50, Giancarlo Razzolini > > <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Em dezembro 4, 2020 9:27 Emil Velikov via arch-general escreveu: > >> > I would love to hear the input from the respective maintainers and the > >> > overall Arch developer base as a whole. > >> > > >> > >> As the maintainer for both bumblebee and prime-run, I don't see the need for deprecation, yet. > >> Bumblebee still has some uses and also, the it has the appeal of keeping the card completely powered > >> off, something that doesn't happen with prime render offload. > >> > > Thanks for maintaining these Giancarlo. > > > > The power management side of Bumblebee will be untouched - my email > > explicitly covers only the file side of things. > > > > I've seen far too many reports of people using primus, on top of GLVND > > enabled nvidia/mesa causing all sorts of problems. Since tracking > > individual reports does not scale - I've put this proposal. > > > > Note: having a compat primusrun/optirun/pvkrun makes sense - setting > > the respective environment variables is annoying. > > > > -Emil > > > > Put your proposal changes and reasoning on flyspray tickets for each package and I'll take a look. Doing GL (primus+bumblebee) as a start, trimmed only to the bare minimum changes: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68882 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68883 > I'm not sure all the changes are needed. And, it turns out that, due to some limitations/issues > related to intel gvt-g and nvidia with prime render offload, I'm using bumblebee currently. > Do you have details or a bug report about these? I haven't used intel gvt-g and on the occasion of skimming through the code - quality was below i915. > Only issue I had recently was the xorg autodetection issue that they reverted, other than that, it > works fine here. > Again, a bug report with details would be appreciated. Thanks Emil
