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This will hurt the Open Source community
"For the closed-source desktop drivers: We are in active conversations with GPU vendors to enable Mir on those drivers/GPUs, too. [Updated] More to this, we are working together with NVIDIA towards a more unified driver model sitting on top of EGL."
For all those who don't understand, I don't want to be *forced* to use binary drivers because vendors will be happy to close up their driver code again, putting me into a black box. I *DON'T* want to live in a Windows world of no control over what runs on my systems!
Mir will undermine *ALL THE WORK* that's been done to get vendors to open source their drivers and allow for both Linux and *BSD communities the ability to use open source drivers.
If EGL support is added, this may benefit Wayland, while being able to use binary drivers in Wayland may be a stop gap for support.
There are already too few GPU driver developers, Mir will no doubt make this a mess for non-Ubuntu distros who won't/don't use Mir. Trying to force your solution onto others - WITH ABSOLUTELY NO DISCUSSION/COLLABORATION - will not fly.
Those defending Canonical/Ubuntu should ask themselves this one question, "Do I care about Open Source or just use Linux?" If your answer is the latter, then you don't understand why people will fight this.
I really don't care what Ubuntu does but if Ubuntu screws Debian/Fedora/OpenSuSE/Slackware etc then we all lose in our goal of open drivers. A lot of angry Linux developers/users of other distros will excommunicate Ubuntu and Canonical very quickly.
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This gives me hope.
If Nvidia can truly create a Display Server agnostic EGL-based driver (and AMD can follow suit), then commercial games, and applications like Blender which work much better on, or require proprietary drivers will actually have a realistic chance at supporting both Wayland and Mir based Linux systems.
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We already knew that ...
Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: NVIDIA Reportedly Working On A Unified EGL Driver
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMyMTI
Andy Ritger then said that while the NVIDIA Tegra driver supports EGL, the NVIDIA GeForce Linux graphics driver will be working on proper EGL support for the near future.
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Well they did recently post a job opening for Linux Software Engineers, so they are hiring.
In other news, it also appears the 319.xx branch will be the last for the 2.4 kernel.
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NVIDIA Reportedly Working On A Unified EGL Driver
Phoronix: NVIDIA Reportedly Working On A Unified EGL Driver
A Canonical developer has posted on his blog about alleged improvements they are working on NVIDIA with to benefit the Mir Display Server...
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