maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - MeeGo hardware adaptation for N8x0

	Stskeeps	2010-05-16 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by Fontus

If the libraries are ported (or at least Qt) then it should be very easy to port the applications.

What kind of work is required in order to make Qt accelerated? Is it slow because of the missing 3D? Is there something different in the X environment of MeeGo and that of Diablo that makes these libraries accelerated on MeeGo and slow on Diablo? Isn't it on both places the same good old X?

You are free to do the work to support Qt4.6/7 for OS2008 in the Community SSU project or in diablo extras.

This MeeGo hardware adaptation work is to be able to support a modern stack on top of the N8x0 and keep it maintained. MeeGo isn't just Qt. It is a lot of middleware and newer kernels, new libc6 etc. As well as applications built towards this mix. Hint: our kernel and libc6 on Diablo would cause most apps not to run in their binary ARMv5 form. And those are not easily upgrade-able.

We could be doing backports from now on to the end of time for no good benefit to patchwork on top of a dead-end OS. Not going to do that, personally.

Now, can we get back on topic? This is an effort to provide a hardware adaptation for N8x0 for MeeGo, nothing more, nothing less.

After Mer I have some doubts that anything usable will come from 'MeeGo_on_N8x0'.

Right, please go take this issue up in my review thread instead. This is a place for development.

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