[Bug 967149] Re: Solution to Nvidia + cairo-gl memory problem proposed by Nvidia

[Pierre-Loup A. Griffais]

I had filed this bug against glibc to drive the patch in:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15097

Note that the next major release from the NVIDIA driver includes a
wrapper for most of the external calls, which should suppress the
x86-specific relocation problem that I described in my original message
to the list.

Note that my comment above didn't mean to imply the loader patch was
unnecessary, both steps are needed to achieve optimal results.

** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #15097
   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15097

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Title:
  Solution to Nvidia + cairo-gl memory problem proposed by Nvidia

Status in Embedded GLIBC:
  Unknown
Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-
  devel/2012-March/002798.html

  A small portion of that post from Nvidia:
  "Attached is a proof-of-concept patch which fixes this issue for the x86_64 Linux ELF loader. By both applying this patch to the loader and prelinking libnvidia-glcore.so, distros can reduce the memory overhead of linking an application against the NVIDIA libGL to just a few kB:"

  This is the same as bug #725434 which has been closed Won't Fix for
  the Nvidia drivers, figured it would be better to start over here that
  re-open that?

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