On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Laurent Carlier via arch-dev-public <[email protected]> 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
