On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:46 AM David Airlie <airl...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:30 PM Nicolas Chauvet <kwiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Le mar. 27 sept. 2022 à 20:57, David Airlie <airl...@redhat.com> a écrit :
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:02 AM Frantisek Zatloukal <fzatl...@redhat.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > since this mesa change ( 
> > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/94ef544b3f2125912dfbff4c6ef373fe49806b52?branch=rawhide
> > > >  ) in F37 and rawhide, the mesa package lost support for vaapi 
> > > > accelerated encoding and decoding of h264, h265 and decoding of vc1 ( 
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123998 ).
> > > >
> > > > It seems like a big regression from F36 for users with GPUs with open 
> > > > source drivers (mainly AMD, maybe nVidia/other non x86...), that 
> > > > affects common use-cases of Fedora Workstation, like watching videos, 
> > > > in-house game streaming, attending online meetings and many more.
> > >
> > > This was an oversight being enabled prior to this, and I think we have
> > > to remove it from older Fedora as well. Fedora cannot ship anything
> > > that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms.
> > >
> > > The patent licensing around H264/H265 is such that providing this
> > > could leave Red Hat and other Fedora distributors exposed to legal
> > > problems.
> > > Dave.
> > >
> > > > I'd like to ask:
> > > > - Can somebody elaborate on reasons to change something that was 
> > > > working in Fedora for some time already?
> > > > - Is there any short/mid/long term plan to improve the situation?
> > > > - Would it be possible to provide vaapi support at least as an 
> > > > rpmfusion addon to alleviate the fallout in the short term?
> > >
> > > The last might be possible, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
> > At least I've asked in 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123998#c8
> >
> > That the fedora mesa package completely drops the vaapi backend, so a
> > complementary package can just drop the missing files instead of
> > rebuilding a whole mesa package.
> > It would assume the fedora mesa package to have everything needed in
> > order to cope with vaapi backend enabled in the core libraries and
> > that the vaapi backend only provide the implementation.
>
> Please take a look at the rawhide changes I just pushed. This should
> split things out sufficiently.
>

But wait, aren't these the DRI drivers[1]?

[1]: 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/07e1e0b1628d9c55d3858c4655409768c5c0b5de?branch=rawhide



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