Thread: Maemo 5 Reveals its Features
View Single Post
GeneralAntilles's Avatar
GeneralAntilles is offline GeneralAntilles
2008-12-08 , 16:32
Posts: 5,478 | Thanked: 5,222 times | Joined on Jan 2006 @ St. Petersburg, FL
#26
Originally Posted by Frank Banul View Post
Oh really?
Yes, really.

Originally Posted by Frank Banul View Post
We expect an API break between Maemo 4 and Maemo 5, mainly due to the OMAP3 support, the hardware-based graphics acceleration and the changes in the Desktop UI and the Realtime Communication framework.

OMAP3 would be hardware, hardware-based graphics acceleration would again be hardware. The other two would seem to be software. 50% > little in my opinion.
Stuff like GTK breaks don't have a thing to do with hardware, and OpenGL support is still a software issue (drivers, remember?). OMAP3-support isn't really an API issue, but a capability issue.
__________________
Ryan Abel