Intel Rejects Supporting Ubuntu's XMir

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 7, 2013 @11:01PM from the too-russian dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just days after Intel added XMir support to their Linux graphics driver so it would work with the in-development the X11 compatibility layer to the Mir display server premiering with Ubuntu 13.10, Intel management has rejected the action and had the XMir patch reverted. There's been controversy surrounding Mir with it competing with Wayland and the state of the display server being rather immature and its performance coming up short while it will still debut in Ubuntu 13.10. Intel management had to say, "We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream." As a result, Canonical will need to ship their own packaged version of the Intel (and AMD and Nouveau drivers) with out-of-tree patches."

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Monopolist acts anticompetetively, film at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-07 23:21 · Score: 0, Troll

I don't know if mir is a good idea, and neither do I trust the Xorg bunch, after their numerous fsckups, to really get it right, honest, with wayland. The shambles with xorg is because they made it one, and now they're refusing to fix it. Oh well.
The thing is, though, that intel's management throwing a tantrum will ultimately lead to less options and less pressure on the failing failbunch at xorg to get it right. So I'm not thanking intel's management for this.