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by devx 4667 days ago
Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hardware like ARM chips. Can't say I wouldn't like that to happen.
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Or Canonical's packagers will just carry on patching the Intel drivers?
That works fine because Intel has open source drivers. Not so much if NVIDIA and AMD decide to only support Wayland.
True enough. No support for NVIDIA cards at all in current Ubuntu betas. I think even nouveau was falling back to X compatibility but I might have that wrong. It was sloooow
It would be smart to focus on ARM as a long-term strategy. There is a huge investment and legacy in x86 but if history is right, ARM will eat up x86 from the bottom-up just like x86 did to the other ISA's.
Of course the ARM future is not all that glorious. The open-source friendly ARM vendors are not that common, most ARM GPUs do not have (1st party) opensource graphics drivers.