Thread: The N800 has a 3D accelerator, right?
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2008-07-13 , 13:52
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Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
Igor,

You are saying that nokia will happily provide closed source modules for practically every part of the system is afraid of "tainting" the kernel?
The fact that something happened in the past doesn't mean that we should do it again.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
Forgive me for feeling a little bit dubious about this.
Your problem, no point in trying to convince you.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
The performance may not be that great, but by taking even some of the workload off the cpu would allow us to be able to run better newer games and do better newer things with our devices.
Of course that might be true up to a certain point.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
As for resolution, it doesnt seem to effect the iphone to have a lower resolution, and hundreds of devices work perfectly well at the lower resolutions. Coupled with the fact automatic scaling from arbitary resolutions upto fullscreen size is built into the LCD controller makes that argument a little weak.
I don't have an iphone and after playing with one, i am not interested in it at all because of the low resolution - amongst other things. So the fact that others are willing to put up with it doesn't really say much.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
I don't know where you stand within Nokia and I don't mean to shoot the messenger so to speak, but I find none of the reasoning given by you or others (apart from money aspect) to be realistic.
Certainly i don't sit in the control room :-)
I merely say what's the state of things, compatibly with my nda.
But no misinformation, if i cannot say something, i just shut up.
So, believe it or not, what i said is the plain truth, to the best of my understanding.

Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
The pvr is technically capable and I would really like to use it.
Then you can try other approaches: ask the manufacturer to open up the specs (and good luck with that), try some reverse engineering of an existing binary driver, or write a wrapper for the same existing binary driver.
 

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