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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by emmelaich on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:44PM (#18835798)
It's not just gpu/driver, it's library versions, compile flags, compiler versions plus all the flags (static and dynamic).

Let's say 50 options. If it costs $1 to test each combo it would cost 2^50, around $10^15 dollars. Google only made $10^9 dollars profit last year.

Now of course I'm being facetious but do not underestimate the cost of testing.

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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by dleslie on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:09PM (#18839269)
That cost assessment is bizarre. Consider how many variants are there in the entire Google software library; somehow I doubt they're spending trillions on testing.
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