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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 02:09:58 +0100
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+<pre>
+Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 01:54:46 +0100
+From: Haelwenn Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
+To: graphics-dev@chromium.org
+Subject: Nouveau blacklisting
+Message-ID: <20190106005446.GA22465@cloudsdale.the-delta.net.eu.org>
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+Hello,
+
+I would like to complain about the blacklisting of nouveau in the
+chromium graphics stack, nouveau is a useful replacement to the proprietary
+driver and linked tools from NVidia, notably, because of the following cases:
+
+- Ethics/Choice, nvidia being a proprietary driver, that litterally gets
+about everything graphics related passed to it, it can be very sensible, be it
+for privacy or politics (they could ban applications or some API).
+
+- Wayland, as the nvidia driver wrongfully provides their own API that only
+a very few compositors provide. wlroots, created for usage in Sway for example
+will never support their API<a href="#anchor-1">[1]</a>.
+
+- Up-to-date software, the proprietary driver has quite the history of lagging
+behind on the software it depends on, for example the 304.xx legacy branch
+needs a vulnerable Xorg branch(1.19.x) and when spectre/meltdown arrived a
+legacy branch was incompatible with the stable branch of the linux kernel
+at that time.
+Which honeslty is quite funny considering that you apparently banned it
+because of outdated mesa builds<a href="#anchor-2">[2]</a>, which just cannot be fixed with the legacy
+branch. Something which I think will probably get even worse if WebGL will have
+to use the slow and power-hungry software rendering.
+
+I do not think that chromium is very liked in a lot of the linux community,
+probably because of the overly large codebase and the link to Google, but doing
+this will probably raise quite a large and visible flag to even non-maintainers.
+
+1: <a name="anchor-1" href="https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html">https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html</a>
+2: <a name="anchor-2" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-Blacklisting-Nouveau">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-Blacklisting-Nouveau</a>
+
+--
+Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
+https://hacktivis.me/
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