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FS#72220 - [intel-media-driver] full-feature OR free-kernel?

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by mattia (nTia89) - Thursday, 23 September 2021, 17:07 GMT
Last edited by Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) - Saturday, 16 October 2021, 14:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel)
Daniel Bermond (Bermond)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
according to homepage[1], there are two "version" of the driver or better two "build types" laying on their words:
- a Full Feature Build, which is default driver build, which supports all feature by hardware accelerator and close source shaders(media kernel binaries).
- a Free Kernel Build, which enables fully open source shaders(media kernels) and hardware features but the features would be limited.

So, two building (different features exposed) -> two packages.

Now, reading our package description "Intel Media Driver for VAAPI — Broadwell+ iGPUs" the information about build type is totally absent.

I suggest to add this information in (at the end of) the package description.

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[1] https://github.com/intel/media-driver/
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Closed by  Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel)
Saturday, 16 October 2021, 14:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  This is Arch, we do non-free stuff when it matters. However you could advise Parabola that their build is thus non-free.

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