[arch-general] [RFC] Potentially deprecating primus, bumblebee, virtualGL and primus_vk

[Lone_Wolf]

On 04-12-2020 13:50, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general 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.
>
> Having said that, I do think bumblebee/primus/primus_vk days are 
> numbered.
>
> Regards,
> Giancarlo Razzolini


For clarity :

Does this affect people without an nvidia card ?

Are users with an nvidia card that only use nouveau kernel module affected ?


Lone_Wolf