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Intel and XMirIntel and XMirPosted Sep 15, 2013 12:59 UTC (Sun) by krake (subscriber, #55996)In reply to: Intel and XMir by glisse Parent article: Intel and XMir
Do you know if this is a short term hack?
I.e. until fully implemented Mir/Wayland "drivers" forXorg exists or a new X server on top of Mir/Wayland have been written?
Or is it unlikely that XMir/XWayland will ever be just normal clients of their respective display server?
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Intel and XMir Posted Sep 16, 2013 9:15 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
I'm not sure about Mir, but under Wayland X11 works exactly the same as under Windows or OS X, that is, X11 should implement the drawing primitives using the drawing API at hand. Under Windows that would be GDI and Quartz under OS X. As Wayland does not force you to use any particular drawing API, you could use OpenGL/EGL or a software renderer or whatever.
If Mir does something different it probably means (wild speculation) that they are cutting corers in the name of shipping earlier. But don't quote me on that.
Intel and XMir Posted Sep 16, 2013 9:32 UTC (Mon) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]
This was my initial understanding as well.
However, when I asked about this on another site's comment section, someone pointed out that the xwayland branch of the driver contains a similar change: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/...
Hence the uncertainty whether this is a short time hack (and removed before merged) or whether it will stay that way for a longer time.
Intel and XMir Posted Sep 16, 2013 15:58 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.
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