[arch-dev-public] Mesa, Nvidia and libglvnd (the good, the bad and the ugly) :)

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Laurent Carlier via arch-dev-public
<arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Nvidia provides for several releases libglvnd support which mean the hability
> to have serveral libgl installed without hacks (nvidia-libgl, mesa-libgl
> currently). With Fedora providing default Mesa with libglvnd support (with
> some fedora patches, some upstream pending patches), i plan to provide Mesa
> with libglvnd support with mesa-17.0
>
> What does this means ?
> Mesa and Nvidia will be able to live together in a perfect harmony :) Mesa and
> Nvidia will not provide anymore mesa-libgl and nvidia-libgl packages; they are
> useless. libglvnd will provide libgl support and will depend on an opengl-
> driver, what Mesa and Nvidia will provide. Bumblebee will not work anymore
> with Nvidia and Mesa, but only with prime (1).
> Nvidia-340xx driver will still work with bumblebee but will need a specific
> (non libglvnd?) Mesa version.
> Nvidia-304xx driver will be (finally) moved to unsupported.
>
> So, When ?
> The first step is a new xorg-server version with upstream patches to improve
> outputclass support and the glx.so symlink hack (2), now using ModulePath xorg
> option (3) and adapt Nvidia and Mesa drivers. Let's hope i will not break
> everything :)
>
> The next step (after Mesa 17.0 release) is the libglvnd move.......
>
> (1) https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-synchronization/
> (2) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26284
> (3) man xorg.conf
>
> --
> Laurent Carlier
> http://www.archlinux.org

Awesome!

J. Leclanche