Posted Sep 11, 2013 15:44 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by lkundrak
Parent article: Intel and XMir
"would be a lot less hassle for me to get it runnig."
I suspect patching the kernel is less than 1% of the overall hassle. XMir is an X emulator that runs on Mir. So you'd first have to build Mir and get that to work. No one has documented how to build Mir under Fedora yet but it involves patching a bunch of project like gtk, and mesa. Once mir builds, it's unlikely to run so you will also need to code a bunch of things yourself. The coding is going to be 99% of the hassle.
Posted Sep 11, 2013 20:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
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> XMir is an X emulator that runs on Mir.
Well no, it isn't.
(besides the fact that X emulator doesn't actually exist. It would be like calling Firefox a HTML emulator)
Last time I read anything about it the Mir used Xorg infrastructure for everything to do with graphics drivers, mode setting, keyboard, and most other I/O stuff.
The end result was that Mir ended up a sort of compositor on top of Xorg that provided Mir APIs.
