Thread: N9 with an Atom CPU?
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Radu is offline Radu
2011-02-06 , 03:46
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#19
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
This looks like an issue to take up with the application developer.
LOL, are you even serious? You think big companies (some of which are even not in business anymore) will take their time to port their software to OpenGL 4 just so that people using a N9 can use it?

If you select OMAP your only supplier is TI. Same for any other ARM SoC.
All ARM CPUs will have many common things, such as the instruction set. Sure, they have different GPUs and other units, which require special code. But for X86 CPUs you have much fewer options (Intel, AMD and Via), and you need special code for their auxiliary units too.

MeeGo is quite the real OS. It's been designed to use all of the same libraries that are used in Fedora and Ubuntu. No "bionic" or "uClibc" or custom, used-nowhere-else widget toolkits and GUI subsystems. The only thing "designed" about it are the reference user interfaces.
Will Mesa work with the new chip?

Well, on x86 with Linux, the answer is generally yes. But then, since they're closed source you're stuck depending on their support regardless of the OS you use.
Not true. Most of the closed source programs designed to run on Linux will generally run on any Linux distro. The binaries are mostly compatible between distros. Will they run on Meego too?