freedesktop-sdk VS mesa-git-extension

I think I might have confused two unrelated posts. The one that references Polar Signals is this one:

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues/...

So not a perf issue there, but they don't think the workflow is suitable for whole-system profiling. Perf issues were in the context of `perf` using DWARF:

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues/...

But the fd-sdk https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk and gnome build meta https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta projects can prove as good references.

With all of these hypothetical features out of the way and looking just at current release software, Flatpak allows you to do so much stuff that isn't accessible for a not-so-techy user. Custom installation folder? Yep. Running mesa-git GPU drivers? You got it. Any way to easily do this via GUI? In typical Linux fashion, nope. For a GUI focused packaging format this is a big letdown.

Link to (official?) how-to: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/wikis/Mesa-git

You can load up Mesa GIT using environment variables, see here. Honestly what I miss the most from flatpak Steam is properly working non-Steam shortcuts, but I've given up on that.

It was my understanding that the packages for vaapi are just put into the -extra version of the sdk so app maintainers can opt out, but they are still available if they want to use them. See https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/merge_requests/10616

That would replace the default Mesa with your build. I recently added these instructions to the mesa-git repository: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension. What I personally do, instead of replacing the default mesa extension, I build mesa-git using the version of mesa I want to test, and then I start the apps with mesa-git. That way I have both the default Mesa extension and my own build, and can use whichever I want in any specific situation.

I added build instructions to the mesa-git repository recently: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension

Make sure you have a clean working tree. A note on that, upstream still haven't accepted my MR on the branch release/21.08, so there isn't a .gitignore file on this branch like the one I created on the other branches. It's better to copy this file from master and paste it back after checking out the 21.08 branch, this will make it easier to check if the working tree is clean. This won't be necessary after this MR gets merged.

22.1 > 22.2 shouldn’t be a major upgrade? Wouldn’t that be 22.x > 23.x? Also there’s a mesa-git flatpak you can use. https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that's in question too: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension/-/issues/9

just to save everyone some time, I was never able to get this to work with Elden Ring, and it seems to be a known issue.