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

[Emil Velikov]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 14:11, Giancarlo Razzolini
<grazzolini at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Em dezembro 4, 2020 10:04 Emil Velikov escreveu:
> > 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
> >
>
> 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