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Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)Posted Mar 5, 2013 5:17 UTC (Tue) by swetland (subscriber, #63414)In reply to: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H) by rahvin Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)
Is using an existing abstraction layer for hardware composition that's deployed to a wide variety of SoCs on hundreds of millions of devices "reinventing the wheel?".
They probably could save more time by slicing things *above* the SurfaceFlinger instead of below it, just bolting whatever IPC protocol they want on top if they don't want to use the existing Binder stuff.
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Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H) Posted Mar 5, 2013 15:49 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Fair point but they are still dividing things in the infrastructure, which seems like unnecessary wheel re-invention, rather than competing in the application space, which would be competition.
Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H) Posted Mar 6, 2013 6:12 UTC (Wed) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]
Well they are re-inventing surfaceflinger as much as they are re-inventing wayland.
I agree they would have saved time by implementing their fancy swiping ui as a new android launcher app. But of course that way they couldn't have claimed they are somehow making a "real Linux" phone...
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