MeeGo 1.2 on the N900

Posted Jun 3, 2011 18:22 UTC (Fri) by Felix.Braun (guest, #3032)
Parent article: MeeGo 1.2 on the N900

I have tried out the DE-Images on my N900 (also booting from a class 6 MMC). Unfortunately, the start-up performance of the applications is a true blocker bug for me. For example, starting the browser takes somewhere around 40 seconds. This is an order of magnitude off from being dogfoodable. This is true about all other applications too (see the wiki for details). So while these images might be ok as testbeds for development, not even an old-school linux enthusiast accustomed to rough edges and missing functionality would be able to bear using them as their primary phone OS.

I'm not sure, how much flashing the images on the built-in MMC would speed up the process. However, if I interpret the graphs from the wiki correctly, a class 6 external MMC should be a bit faster than the internal eMMC. If this is true, then the developpers still have a fair amount of work to get this UX into a dogfoodable state.

MeeGo 1.2 on the N900

Posted Jun 4, 2011 9:10 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

The eMMC being slower is a bug somewhere, since on the maemo side it's 2-20x faster. So things should be eventually better on the eMMC, or better yet using the NAND for parts of the installation which is of course where maemo was running all the time.

I agree that even coming from the Neo FreeRunner world (3+ years old hardware), 40s is a bit too much :)

MeeGo 1.2 on the N900

Posted Jun 7, 2011 12:13 UTC (Tue) by lamikr (guest, #2289) [Link]

Performance work has now started for N900/DE images, biggest problem
is the memory foot print. N900 has 256 mb of ram and at the moment it's basically the amount of mem we have already used once the device has booted up. (Which takes about 70 second atm.)

Current images includes btw also the gpe-mini-browser in addition of fennec.
It's much lighter (about 10 sec startup) while still providing good rendering on pages I have visited.