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Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by keithpeter »

devx wrote: post #3

Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hardware like ARM chips. Can't say I wouldn't like that to happen.

Or Canonical's packagers will just carry on patching the Intel drivers?

Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by tinco »

What an awful move. Note that they are deliberately hurting open source software by restricting contributions for a purely political reason.

Obviously it will result in an Ubuntu fork of the intel drivers, which will eventually lead to a situation where the only consequence is a more painful workflow for Ubuntu core contributers and early adopters looking for up to date drivers.

Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by slurry »

According to Phornoix, Chris Wilson of Intel wrote this in a Git commit:

We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ1NjY

Phoronix's link to said commit does not work, so it is hard to infer context. But I would assume that "the course of action they have chosen" refers to working on Mir in the first place rather than contributing to Wayland. If that's the case, can't say I really blame Intel.

Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by skylan_q »

devx wrote: post #3

Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hardware like ARM chips. Can't say I wouldn't like that to happen.

It would be smart to focus on ARM as a long-term strategy. There is a huge investment and legacy in x86 but if history is right, ARM will eat up x86 from the bottom-up just like x86 did to the other ISA's.

Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by krschultz »

slurry wrote: post #6

According to Phornoix, Chris Wilson of Intel wrote this in a Git commit: We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ1NjY Phoronix's link to said commit does not work, so it is hard to infer context. But I would assume that "the course of action they have chosen" refers to working on Mi…

""the course of action they have chosen" refers to working on Mir in the first place rather than contributing to Wayland. If that's the case, can't say I really blame Intel."

I absolutely blame Intel. Whatever you think about Ubuntu's decision to make their own X server, it is childish to not include working patches for purely political reasons. It's not like Ubuntu is asking Intel to do their work for them.

So Canonical got railed for not contributing upstream, and they try to contribute upstream they get everyone blaming them again? That's ridiculous.

Re: Intel Says No to Ubuntu's New Display Server

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Post by pjmlp »

tinco wrote: post #5

What an awful move. Note that they are deliberately hurting open source software by restricting contributions for a purely political reason. Obviously it will result in an Ubuntu fork of the intel drivers, which will eventually lead to a situation where the only consequence is a more painful workflow for Ubuntu core contributers and early adopters looking for up to date drivers.

Does not surprise me.

Many guys in FOSS tend to like Intel, but not all Intel departments are FOSS friendly.

Even the graphics division, tends to put more resources into DirectX tooling and processors like the PowerVR family, than what they contribute to X.

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