Blacklisting some buggy NVIDIA drivers on Linux.

Blacklisting some buggy NVIDIA drivers on Linux.

BUG=82232, 82541, 87680, 90091
TEST=unittests, these drivers are blacklisted.
Committed: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=95326

[Zhenyao Mo, 2011-07-28 21:55:26]

Please review.

[vangelis, 2011-07-29 18:08:13]

On 2011/07/28 21:55:26, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> Please review.

It seems like on linux we don't blacklist older drivers like we do on windows. 
Is there a good cut-off point that we can use to blacklist older drivers?

[Zhenyao Mo, 2011-07-29 18:17:28]

On 2011/07/29 18:08:13, vangelis wrote:
> On 2011/07/28 21:55:26, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> > Please review.
> 
> It seems like on linux we don't blacklist older drivers like we do on windows.

> Is there a good cut-off point that we can use to blacklist older drivers?

Although the newest is 270+ already, the 195.36.24 we blacklisted in this CL for
a specific card, it's still widely used by many Z600.  They have conformance
issues, but nothing critical (no crash or weird rendering issues).  I don't
think we should blacklist it in general.

[vangelis, 2011-07-29 18:55:33]

On 2011/07/29 18:17:28, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> On 2011/07/29 18:08:13, vangelis wrote:
> > On 2011/07/28 21:55:26, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> > > Please review.
> > 
> > It seems like on linux we don't blacklist older drivers like we do on
windows.
> 
> > Is there a good cut-off point that we can use to blacklist older drivers?
> 
> Although the newest is 270+ already, the 195.36.24 we blacklisted in this CL
for
> a specific card, it's still widely used by many Z600.  They have conformance
> issues, but nothing critical (no crash or weird rendering issues).  I don't
> think we should blacklist it in general.

Do we have a version number that roughly corresponds to the early 2009 drivers
that we use for windows? 

We seem to be getting a bunch of Vectortown bugs on nvidia h/w as well.  Makes
me think that we need to be a bit more conservative.

[Zhenyao Mo, 2011-08-03 00:17:55]

On 2011/07/29 18:55:33, vangelis wrote:
> On 2011/07/29 18:17:28, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> > On 2011/07/29 18:08:13, vangelis wrote:
> > > On 2011/07/28 21:55:26, Zhenyao Mo wrote:
> > > > Please review.
> > > 
> > > It seems like on linux we don't blacklist older drivers like we do on
> windows.
> > 
> > > Is there a good cut-off point that we can use to blacklist older drivers?
> > 
> > Although the newest is 270+ already, the 195.36.24 we blacklisted in this CL
> for
> > a specific card, it's still widely used by many Z600.  They have conformance
> > issues, but nothing critical (no crash or weird rendering issues).  I don't
> > think we should blacklist it in general.
> 
> Do we have a version number that roughly corresponds to the early 2009 drivers
> that we use for windows? 
> 
> We seem to be getting a bunch of Vectortown bugs on nvidia h/w as well.  Makes
> me think that we need to be a bit more conservative.

Updated according to our offline discussion.

Please review again.

[vangelis, 2011-08-03 07:04:18]

LGTM.  Thanks!