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Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
About the Android hardware issue. See the critical comment from the Lima driver developer: http://libv.livejournal.com/25325.html
His points are valid, if libhybris is going to become a permanent thing, instead of a temporary crutch to gain foothold.



I wish they'd publish such stuff in English in timely manner as well
MIR is GPL3 AFAIK. and as we know many companys dislike GPL3 for sometimes valid reasons.

and about libhybris fact stands we have to accept that companys will only deliver android drivers simply because Google feeds them. Same way as Microsoft doing on desktop where we lack decent GFX drivers for Linux.

I am suprised he thinks libhybris is dangerous at the same time he wonder why Intel don't want to support MiR??

Well here is what i think:

Its way more dangerous that now manufactors has to make sure driver works on X11, Wayland and MiR thats makes linux fragmentation that is and the most stupid one since Linux was introduced It may very well end that manufactors will only support the biggest dist. And as we know Canonical is the biggest linux dist means will only support MiR. Except Intel GFX.

And about his visions about Lima. Well I am glad there is people try make this happen. But still there is no damn way it can compete with closed drivers especially since lack of documentation from most of the GFX manufactors. Thats the biggest reason libhybris will stay for long, even if we like it or not.
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Last edited by mikecomputing; 2013-09-16 at 18:51.
 

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