Re:Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon
by Zigurd on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:31PM
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Re OpenGL: If I understand this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec correctly, libhybris is what is currently used to cobble together the use of SurfaceFlinger as a compositor for Ubuntu Touch. Ubuntu intends to pull this compatibility with Android's HAL, more specifically the GPU drivers, into mir, which will enable mir to be binary compatible with GPU drivers written for Android, which support OpenGL.
Mir has specific goals for hardware and binary driver compatibility and Canonical has demonstrated proof of concept by using SurfaceFlinger as a compositor for Ubuntu Touch.
Re:Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon
by wmf on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:39PM
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AFAIK Android drivers support only OpenGL ES, not regular OpenGL; that's the problem he's talking about. As similar as they may be, apps written for one will not run on the other.
Mir has specific goals for hardware and binary driver compatibility and Canonical has demonstrated proof of concept by using SurfaceFlinger as a compositor for Ubuntu Touch.