ARM Talks Up Wayland For Mali

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ARM Talks Up Wayland For Mali

Earlier this month at SIGGRAPH, ARM and Collabora was talking up the benefits and possibilities for Wayland over X11...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc3MTE

[89c51]

Does it work as efficiently on normal hardware (ie things you can buy off the shelf) with the FOSS drivers?




Daniel seems like he lost about a decade of his life from anxiety while doing this. (j/k)

[valeriodean]

Well, looking to the CPU workload, Frame latency and the power consumption... Wayland destroy X, period.
I can't wait one more second to have my distro run natively on wayland, come on!

[TheOne]

And this may be why intel moved wayland author to work on other things beside wayland, because the arm guys are taking more advantage of wayland which intel may see as a threat xD. So now with wayland you can take less powered arm hardware and have a decent system, lets ditch more expensive intel cpus...

[89c51]

And this may be why intel moved wayland author to work on other things beside wayland, because the arm guys are taking more advantage of wayland which intel may see as a threat xD. So now with wayland you can take less powered arm hardware and have a decent system, lets ditch more expensive intel cpus...

Putting the conspiracy theories aside about the WL situation i don't think there is a 64bit ARM cpu that can challenge top end Intel x86 CPUs. And not even one you can buy off the shelf on your favorite retailer. PLus there are closed apps that only work on x86 (matlab draftsight etc.).

[TheOne]

Putting the conspiracy theories aside about the WL situation i don't think there is a 64bit ARM cpu that can challenge top end Intel x86 CPUs. And not even one you can buy off the shelf on your favorite retailer. PLus there are closed apps that only work on x86 (matlab draftsight etc.).

Well, the arm vs x86 performance at day only matter for the server market (datacenters, etc...) for end-users that only browse the web, check emails, do causal gaming as need some productivity with office applications... you could say the gap has closed, give them a system with newish arm soc and other system with intel/amd cpu and they will not notice much of a difference..

[johnc]

apples to oranges comparison

i'm not taking those charts seriously for a minute

[blackout23]

apples to oranges comparison

i'm not taking those charts seriously for a minute

https://plus.google.com/+DanielStone/posts/QzJcEpw5inW

[JS987]

Well, the arm vs x86 performance at day only matter for the server market (datacenters, etc...) for end-users that only browse the web, check emails, do causal gaming as need some productivity with office applications... you could say the gap has closed, give them a system with newish arm soc and other system with intel/amd cpu and they will not notice much of a difference..

Intel CPU is bottleneck (too slow) for me. Most Linux software is single-threaded or don't really scale with more cores. 30 GHz Intel CPU would be useful for me. ARM CPUs have usually 30% or less performance of Intel CPUs.

[CrystalGamma]

So when is the day that I can buy an ARM ultrabook and use my favorite DE on it?
That is, when there are good enough GPU (and everything else as well) FOSS drivers for at least one of those SoCs?