Thread: Can we please avoid Blackberry's stupid mistake, and release with an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant SoC?
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2013-07-21 , 09:42
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
you dont answer my question what apps using the new api. Also I give you a new one: What of todays gfx SoC support 3.0?
All of the big names?[*]
[*] Unless Jolla pulls a Nokia and sells a 2013 device with 2011 hardware

Shipping the Jolla with GLES 3.0 enabled in Mesa shouldn't be too big a deal.

Heck, they should be targeting a mobile GPU with OpenGL (non-ES) 3.0 to please the desktop Linux fans, but IIRC the only mobile GPU that does this is the Adreno.

The only worry is that there's so much OpenGL ES 2.0-only hardware out there, and Sailfish licensees who'd like to produce, say, a mid-low end phone would probably find themselves fragmented out of some apps using fancy GLES3 stuff.
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