radv on Ubuntu broken in distro packages

It appears that Ubuntu mesa 17.2.2 packages that ship radv, have patches to enable MIR support. These patches actually just break radv instead. I'd seen some people complain that simple apps don't work on radv, and saying radv wasn't ready for use and how could anyone thing of using it and just wondered what they had been smoking as Fedora was working fine. Hopefully Canonical can sort that out ASAP.

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  1. Fabio8 November 2017 at 00:52

    You can get working Vulkan drivers on Ubuntu with this PPA:
    https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/

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  2. Marius Gedminas8 November 2017 at 02:47

    Do they know? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa has only one bug mentioning radv, and it's not about radv.

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    1. Fabio9 November 2017 at 00:19

      This is the Ubuntu bug:
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1720890

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  3. Lapo9 November 2017 at 16:03

    yes, they do: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1720890

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