Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au [LWN.net]

Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au

Posted Jan 29, 2009 22:39 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au by ufa
Parent article: Mobile Linux at linux.conf.au

> How can it be? OpenPandora is ARM based and have full OpenGl compliance.

Based on few posts Google found:
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=42678
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=50933

Does the 3D HW work well with X11? Is it stable? Does it perform well
(does it support e.g. HW acceleration for Xrender (composite), Xv etc)?

For games it might be fine to (re-)write your UIs in OpenGL and work on
top of a framebuffer, but who wants to do that for e.g. Firefox?
Especially if you could run only one application at the time, and because
the OpenGL driver is a proprietary binary blob, you cannot properly debug
your application crashes.

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