On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 12:58 -0700, Brian Swetland wrote: > Somebody will have to broker a deal with the frameworks/apps folks to > get rid of the binder. They like it a lot. Of course if somebody > built a drop-in replacement for the userspace side that didn't require > a kernel driver, had the same performance characteristics, solved the > same problems, etc, they could probably make an argument for it (or > just provide it as a drop-in replacement for people who want a more > "pure" linux underneath Android, even if we didn't pick it up). So what's up with this Binder stuff, from what I can see its just yet-another-CORBA. Why does it need a kernel part at all, can't you simply run with a user-space ORB instead? I really don't get why people keep re-inventing CORBA, there's some really nice (free) ORBs out there, like: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
