Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:40:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration |
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--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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,
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