Thread: The N800 has a 3D accelerator, right?
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2010-04-29 , 13:26
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
To deliver apps on what platform? Mer? MeeGo? What's the point right now?
On any platform, as long as it works on the N8x0 .
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I wish I could sound less gloomy and doomy but.. yanno.. Nokia.. abandoned.. Mer.. Meego. But in all seriousness, what do you mean?
Nokia didn't abandon anything. Developers are abandoning it!

Just look at how you need to _prod_ developers to NOT remove support for the N8x0 from their apps. Certain person here removed N8x0 support entirely from a certain piece of code that I made "just because he could" (then fortunately added it back when requested). It's hard to convince developers to develop for a platform they don't have!

Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Pardon me if I don't cry out, "I'll believe it when I see it." at this point.
MeeGo is already on the N8x0 (if MeeGo ever gets a default OSS tablet UI, not twm, we'll see ;P ).

Originally Posted by Mixu View Post
We are talking about 3D accelerator here but does this same driver also do 2D acceleration?
It is one of Stskeeps dreams to try Qt 2D acceleration with OpenVG, but the pessimist in me says the performance of it will not be acceptable.

There's a fact that you might need to accept: what if the beloved N8x0's MBX is just SLOW? Maybe because of the external framebuffer, maybe because the chipset was designed for a Game Boy. What if the apparent slowness it's not caused by bugs in the 3D driver?

It's something I'm reticent to accept too, but think of it. The N900 SGX is not impressively fast either, so I'm wary of what an older generation chipset will do.
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