Chromium blacklists nouveau

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jxself
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https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2019-January/031798.html

Do they expect people to use the proprietary Nvidia junk?

"But let me reiterate what I said in #37: we want a stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second."

So I guess that statement means software freedom is not even in the first two things?

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> So I guess that statement means software freedom is not even in the first two things?

Apparently not, unfortunately, but it's unsurprising that there is not a culture of freedom around the testing bed for a proprietary browser. Contributing to permissively licensed software is not unethical, but with Chromium directly upstream from Chrome, every contribution to Chromium is effectively a contribution to Chrome, so I'd expect it to diproportionately attract developers who are ethically comfortable with propietary software.

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Permissive licenses work against software freedom. Another (dis)honorable example is MINIX, which is used by Intel ME.

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If I understand correctly, running Chromium with the blacklist enabled means no GPU acceleration. Shouldn't the browser work fine without this feature (as far as I know, none of the browsers I use on a T60 with Intel graphics support this feature anyway)?