Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams KMS Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams KMS Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver

The Canonical developers maintaining the Mir display server with its modern focus on being a Wayland compositor have just issued Mir 1.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Mir-1.1-Released

[cl333r]

I don't care about Mir per se, but it's awesome that Nvidia's binary driver will FINALLY be supported by Wayland (and Mir), because Nouveau while a great project - in real life is only good for installing the Nvidia binary driver (because it doesn't support Vulkan, is a lot slower at OpenGL, no hw video decoding, very slow at supporting new hw, new standards and whatnot).

[gufide]

hey look at that! Mir supports proprietary drivers, as promised!

Your turn wayland!

/s

[tildearrow]

People still not understanding that Wayland is a freaking protocol and Mir is no longer its own thing but rather it DOES freaking Wayland!

[sheldonl]

Anyone know if it'll be possible to run KDE Plasma desktop with Mir?

[Pepec9124]

I don't care about Mir per se, but it's awesome that Nvidia's binary driver will FINALLY be supported by Wayland (and Mir), because Nouveau while a great project - in real life is only good for installing the Nvidia binary driver (because it doesn't support Vulkan, is a lot slower at OpenGL, no hw video decoding, very slow at supporting new hw, new standards and whatnot).

To be quite honest vesa is a safer way for installing drivers as it has no way of crashing since any acceleration support is missing.

[Kemosabe]

To be quite honest vesa is a safer way for installing drivers as it has no way of crashing since any acceleration support is missing.

Why do you need a GUI for driver installation anyway?

[cl333r]

People still not understanding that Wayland is a freaking protocol and Mir is no longer its own thing but rather it DOES freaking Wayland!

I do understand it, but you apparently don't understand what people mean as you literally interpret what they say which is wrong. When I say "Wayland" I obviously mean an implementation, but it's not practical being that meticulous.

As one man at Google said - pay attention to what people mean not what they say.

[sarmad]

Oh, how ironic. Mir is better at doing Wayland than Wayland's own advocates.
Next step for Ubuntu: Replace Mutter with Mir.

[Kemosabe]

Oh, how ironic. Mir is better at doing Wayland than Wayland's own advocates.
Next step for Ubuntu: Replace Mutter with Mir.

Why do you think a lot of people were mad that Canonical was wasting their resources on custom pseudo-open projects? Of course they are supposed to bring things forward. . . Sadly this is again an Ubuntu only feature.