Re: [RFC] Potentially deprecating primus, bumblebee, virtualGL and primus_vk

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On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 20:48, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 19:01, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 14:40, Giancarlo Razzolini
> > <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Em janeiro 12, 2021 15:24 Archange via arch-general escreveu:
> > > >
> > > > OK, will try to check tomorrow with a friend that has an Optimus laptop.
> > > >
> > >
> > > If upstream is willing to pick up these changes, I'll wait on that, instead of
> > > making the proposed changes as of now.
> > >
> > I'm not sure I follow - how is upstream supposed to "pick" those up?
> > These are packaging related and upstream doesn't do packaging after all.
> >
> > The only non-packaging piece is the optirun script. I guess one can
> > teach BB about "glvnd" bridge. In that case, the daemon stays to do
> > power management and the executable correctly sets DRI_PRIME. None of
> > the fancy Xorg instances or Xorg config management.
> >
> > In the primus(primus_vk*) case they are completely removed in favour
> > of compat script, since I don't want to annoy people.
> > Although if you prefer I can omit the compatibility scripts all together :-P
> >
> Humble poke, can you elaborate what you have in mind?
>
Another humble poke?

-Emil



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