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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by magicalist on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:18PM (#18836543)
Huh? It appears they did test it, and for that matter (according to the linked post) so did the Nouveau devs who also found it failed the easily accessible test suite.
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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:26PM (#18836567)
We agree Nouveau is completely blacklisted right? That's the main problem here.

And the test suite failed on a minor issue where the cause was uncertain, which gets in the way of checking for the bigger definitely-the-driver problem.

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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by magicalist on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:25AM (#18837082)
If you can hang the GPU with regular webgl content, that's not a minor issue.
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Re:Chromium blacklists Nouveau by vfq on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:10AM (#18837732)
That's the reason I have webgl disabled even though I'm on Windows with a supported driver. It opens a gaping security/DoS hole without any benefit (do you ever see webgl used in any website?)
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