linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration

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Message-ID: <1275916830.1645.566.camel@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:20:30 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>,
	Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@...roid.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, tytso@....edu,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration

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



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