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Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hard
by devx 13y ago
Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hardware like ARM chips. Can't say I wouldn't like that to happen.
- keithpeter 13y agoOr Canonical's packagers will just carry on patching the Intel drivers?
- mayhew 13y agoThat works fine because Intel has open source drivers. Not so much if NVIDIA and AMD decide to only support Wayland.
- keithpeter 13y agoTrue enough. No support for NVIDIA cards at all in current Ubuntu betas. I think even nouveau was falling back to X compatibility but I might have that wrong. It was sloooow
- skylan_q 13y agoIt would be smart to focus on ARM as a long-term strategy. There is a huge investment and legacy in x86 but if history is right, ARM will eat up x86 from the bottom-up just like x86 did to the other ISA's.
- zokier 13y agoOf course the ARM future is not all that glorious. The open-source friendly ARM vendors are not that common, most ARM GPUs do not have (1st party) opensource graphics drivers.