Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
View Single Post
Stskeeps's Avatar
Stskeeps is offline Stskeeps
2010-10-24 , 20:02
Posts: 1,671 | Thanked: 11,478 times | Joined on Jun 2008 @ Warsaw, Poland
#109
Originally Posted by me2000 View Post
So not even the "platform" is complete.

So, Meego 1.2, to be released in April, 2011, will be installable by a common user and runnable without dual booting, on an N900 and suitable for everyday usage by a normal user ?
The 1.1 platform isn't complete for basing a proper handset product on. We can all see that.

What is hoped, at least for me, is that MeeGo(.com!!) 1.2 is a solid enough platform to take and build a proper handset product of.

I don't want to go into promises of what MeeGo.com 1.2 is like, you can go see that during development and what is already in the bugs.meego.com featurezilla.

What is on -my- (for the N900 port) table of what I hope to see for N900 in accomplishments for 1.2, relevant to this topic, so far, on an entirely technical manner:

OMAP3 GLES implementation must provide hardware vsync
eMMC as installation target for MeeGo N900
uImage target support in kernel-n900
ext2 or FAT partition in N900 image for uImage placement
Open BME IPC implementation and contextkit plugin
OMAP3 PM and DVFS
OMAP3 DSP support and base image
OMAP3 DSP accelerated Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis
ARMv7 hard floating point port of MeeGo
OMAP3 DSP accelerated JPEG encode/decode
Ability to include OMAP3 DSP h264, m4v, mpeg4, aac, vpp codecs into filesystem
NEON optimized Vorbis and FLAC
NEON optimized Qt, detectable on runtime
WL1251 calibration and set-up of MAC address from CAL
Bigger image size for N900 images (4gb)
Release engineering: easy install of MeeGo PR1.3 u-boot for dual-boot purposes

What I -hope- for MeeGo 1.2 is that we'll have a feature complete (please note that when people say 'feature complete', it means that these were the features indicated for this specific release, you can't say that an application is 'perfect' cos there'll always be features that aren't there and may arrive in the future) handset UX with reference applications.

My hope is that someone takes that MeeGo 1.2 + hardware adaptation, mixes it up with usual nice things like MP3 codecs and other things, publishes it (as they legally can) a user-suitable
installation with community apps.
__________________
As you go on to other communities, remember to build them around politeness, respect, trust and humility. Be wary of poisonous people and deal with them before they end up killing your community.. Seen it happen to too many IRC channels, forums, open source projects.
Last edited by Stskeeps; 2010-10-24 at 20:21.
 

The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Stskeeps For This Useful Post: