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

[Emil Velikov]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 12:50, Giancarlo Razzolini
<grazzolini at archlinux.org> 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