Why not Wayland

Posted Mar 5, 2013 17:22 UTC (Tue) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Why not Wayland by ortalo
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

Correcting the erroneous statements isn't entirely the point though - the other part of this is that the entire foundation of the decision to start Mir seems to be based on having completely misunderstood things, and not having bothered to ask the questions that could have cleared up the misunderstandings.

Why not Wayland

Posted Mar 5, 2013 17:27 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] (2 responses)

Happily they have, as noted, corrected their page. I don't think the decision to create Mir was based on any technical grounds, to be honest.

Why not Wayland

Posted Mar 6, 2013 9:33 UTC (Wed) by ortalo (guest, #4654) [Link] (1 responses)

For the USSR space station at least, that's certain! ;-)
I suppose you would have appreciated to get Canonical support on Wayland. I would too.

However, I am still stubbornly concentrated on that GPU hardware documentation issue. It's been 40 years we have CPU architectural books with full instruction sets and 20 years without anything similar for GPU 3D instructions sets. That's ridiculous and I'd like the people in charge of this stupidity at NVidia/ATI to be fired real-soon-now(tm) because they are preventing decisive technical progress and are evidently unrecoverable.

Why not Wayland

Posted Mar 6, 2013 23:53 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I don't think this is actually true of ATI anymore. Some stuff isn't open, but enough is open (or has been implemented from closed specs by ATI/AMD people) that pretty good free software drivers now exist. (TBH, they've been more than good enough for desktop use for years: they're getting good enough for increasingly hefty games by this point.)