I'm sorry if it's the wrong place to talk about the issue but at least in RedHat's bugzilla many bug reports/feature requests are simply ignored or linger for ages before they are automatically closed, so I really want this issue to get proper attention.

If you have a recent BZ, we can connect with @jforbes about it. I don't particularly want to sidestep the whole thing on a theoretical basis, though I am aware that the kernel package has so many bugs that they are not able to effectively triage without external prioritization.

I don't think we really need to do anything here. The information is available, it just requires CAP_PERF to read it, which we don't grant to non-privileged users. That information can be accessed as root via any standard privilege-escalating process (sudo, polkit, etc.)

Then it's upstream's problem, not ours. They need to make it available unprivileged like everyone else does.

@ngompa

Then it's upstream's problem, not ours. They need to make it available unprivileged like everyone else does.

What an amazing response!

The Intel developer specifically asked you to come up with a proposal/suggestion and you simply say "not our business" in direct opposition to his words.

OK, let Fedora Intel users suffer and not be able to fully utilize the features of their systems without using console, hacks, and misusing root access. This will definitely make them happy.

Why do I even bother? I don't know.

Time to disable my profile here and stop bothering you. Only you have the vision and others may kindly [redacted] off.

The Intel developer specifically asked you to come up with a proposal/suggestion and you simply say "not our business" in direct opposition to his words.

It's not me who said that, it's @sgallagh who said we won't do anything. As for the Intel developer, I don't know anything to say because I don't know anything about MangoHud. I'm not in a good position to say anything upstream. I'm just one of the folks who reviews technical proposals after community discussion.

OK, let Fedora Intel users suffer and not be able to fully utilize the features of their systems without using console, hacks, and misusing root access. This will definitely make them happy.

There are a number of ways to solve the problem for applications. The easiest one is to have a mediation daemon for things like MangoHud to interact with. But ideally, the Intel developer is convinced to actually make read-only data accessible unprivileged.

Time to disable my profile here and stop bothering you. Only you have the vision and others may kindly [redacted] off.

That is not how I mean it. I can't just willy-nilly change things without either community discussion or upstream cooperation. I don't know what you expect, but we don't just do things like that.

@name, in fact, the Intel developer said he will talk to a distro representative and asked for a contact at the MangoHud project to discuss with them what to make available unprivileged. He seemed perfectly willing to work to fix it.