Google's prejudice against optimus

[minj]

Any idea what does google have against optimus?
Here's an excerpt from their GPU blacklist definition file:

{
      "id": 37,
      "description": "Drivers are unreliable for Optimus on Linux",
      "cr_bugs": [131308],
      "os": {
        "type": "linux"
      },
      "multi_gpu_style": "optimus",
      "features": [
        "all"
      ]
},

The linked bug is 1.5 years old, can't be commented and does not seem to be referenced anywhere else except here but that's irrelevant.

So, did they just dropped it and forget about it?

Firefox seems to enable webgl for both GPUs for me and a random chrome experiment runs perfectly fine on both.
Chrome ignores both GPUs by default which can be rectified by using --ignore-gpu-blacklist flag, of course. Intel runs perfectly fine but nvidia fails to render.

There is no reason to blacklist intel GPUs at all and certainly no reason to drop nvidia optimus support and pretend those don't exist.

Anyone has any insider knowledge about this? I want to create a chrome issue but those seem to be ignored these days...

[Lekensteyn]

I guess that the nobody bothered to verify the bug across multiple systemd and/ or submitted a patch for it to change it.

[ArchangeGabriel]

You might try to email the owner of the issue. I’m letting this open for anyone looking for that, and if you get any news please keep us updated.