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Intel and XMir

Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 11, 2013 20:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by error27
Parent article: Intel and XMir

> 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.


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