--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, That made me laugh. Do you realize that one of the earliest objections to CORBA was "why do people keep re-inventing RPC" ... :) (Simple answer: the existing stuff didn't solve enough of the right problems ... and it was easier (in a political sense) to come up with something new than to try fixing DCE or ONC (or whatever). Similar answers may still apply ... last I looked at CORBA, it didn't standardize desktop integration (or cell-phone equivalents), and the pure user-space versions suffered slowdowns when looking up object bindings. > there's some really nice (free) ORBs out there, -- 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
