This amd driver patch cant land though until the xmir support for the xorg server has been merged. Org server patch, rogers then posted an amd driver patch so that the radeon ddx driver can run within a mir nested compositor. In which version will ubuntu remove xorg from the repositories completely. Open source driver for intel graphics drops mir support.
As far as i know ubuntu plans to replace xorg with mir in the future. You can install the mir examples along with the mir graphics drivers as follows. Supporting x11 clients on mir servers docs ubuntu community hub. Those patches havent received many comments from upstream mesa developers, but there were more than 200 comments in our forums. Thats interesting for me since i usually do a minimal ubuntu install and then add some exotic wms i like. According to xorg developers, xorg network transparency is broken. A commit on the intel xorg driver branch yesterday showed a very damning comment from intel management informing the world that mir will no longer be supported by them the commit came yesterday morning with the following message within the news section. Xmir is a total of around lines of code on top of xorg.
What benefits does the user gain from using xmir on mir rather than native xorg. Xmir gets axed as default display server on ubuntu. Mir runs on a range of linux powered devices including. This package provides an x server running on top of mir, using mir input devices for. For other applications they built xmir which is an x11 server that. Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a wayland compositor for the linux operating system that is under development by canonical ltd. Historically, in unity8 canonical was running an xmir instance for each x11 application. Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a wayland compositor for the linux operating. Mir is the fast, open and secure display server to unlock nextgeneration user experiences. The code in question was a patch to intels xorg driver so that it can run xorg sessions on top of a mir system compositor, hall wrote.
Org server patches for supporting xmir plus the opensource. Intel rejection of ubuntus mir patch forces canonical to. Now run your system with xmir enabled and test it is running with. The escalation comes after a commit from canonicals christopher halse rogers from 4 september to intels xf86videointel driver was reverted on 7 september. Running desktop applications on ubports x11, wayland, mir and. Xwayland xmir will allow you to continue using x inside of wayland mir environments, for all kind of x applications, including network transparent apps.
If its just mir then how do we get official not proprietary drivers to work by amd 14. Wms who need xorg will run on an intermediate layer called xmir instead. Code changes are needed to reflect changes to the mir api. Intel pulled support for xmir from their xorg driver branch yesterday, just days after the code was merged. It implements no functionality that isnt present in xorg. Org server if the graphics drivers dont support mir. It was planned to replace the currently used x window system for ubuntu, however the plan changed and mutter was adopted as part of gnome shell mir was announced by canonical on 4 march 20 as part of the development of unity 8, intended as the next. Xmir is the x11 compatibility layer for the mir display server in ubuntu linux. In september 20, an intel developer removed xmir support from their video driver and wrote we do not condone or support.
Canonical last week posted 15 patches so mesa could support their mir display server and specifically the mir egl platform. In other words, when displaying through xmir, youre using exactly the same display driver stack as you would be if you were using xorg. It works by making the xorg server draw to wayland mir. Jack wallen is an awardwinning writer for techrepublic and. Intel rejection of ubuntus mir patch forces canonical to go own way.