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
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