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Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 12, 2013 2:47 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by ovitters
Parent article: Intel and XMir

The focus within Canonical is foremost on Ubuntu, all other distributions are secondary.

To the point that even their laptop collaborations with Dell tend not to work so well when you either install another distro or upgrade major components.

Canonical simply could do much, much better at collaborating upstream.

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Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 12, 2013 3:20 UTC (Thu) by maxiaojun (subscriber, #91482) [Link]

> To the point that even their laptop collaborations with Dell tend not to work so well when you either install another distro or upgrade major components.

I rather see this as a problem of Linux development model.

So I'm a hardware vendor, I have some drivers not in mainline yet. Can mainlining a driver to a futuristic version, say, 3.12 help me get CentOS 6 work on my laptop model?

Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 12, 2013 4:37 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Yes. If your driver isn't in the upstream kernel, it's unlikely that Red Hat will backport it.