[maemo-developers] Fremantle OpenGL wrapper?

[From: Qole]

Kimmo and Quim:

First of all: I did not start this thread as an attack on the Maemo team,
nor was my comment, "that's disappointing," meant as an attack. It is a
simple statement of fact; it is disappointing to me that Maemo 5 does not
yet have the infrastructure in place to be able to run hardware-accelerated
3D graphics in OpenGL ES applications.

To me, this is a very important feature for any future device, and I was
disappointed that this is not apparently a high priority within Maemo.

I really want the next Maemo device to succeed, and one of the first things
the gadget blogs and technophiles will want to see is the games. This means
making Maemo 5 games friendly, and to me that means making it easy to port
existing OpenGL games to Maemo 5.

I don't know the internal workings of Maemo, and perhaps you have a good
strategy in place for games; I was thinking purely of porting existing Linux
games that were written for OpenGL. So I began thinking of what needed to be
in place for this porting to be done.

I also admit I might have been influenced by the video of Quake3 on the
Pandora. :-)

I also don't expect Maemo to port the games, I'm just concerned that the
path will be too thorny to encourage others to do it.

Alan


2009/6/3 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>
>
> I already said that I'm working on non-composited mode, didn't I?  I
>> don't have to do this, but I'm kind person :)
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> Well, the device is not out yet, so how far it could be?
>>
>

Thank you for working on it.


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi Qole,
>
> Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:17 +0200, ext Qole wrote:
> >> That's quite disappointing.
>
> Well, more disappointing would be a hildon-desktop inconsistent,
> sluggish, buggy and with weird wrong interactions between GTK+, Hildon,
> Clutter, OpenGL ES, Xorg, OMAP3 kernel... and more brave technologies
> Kimmo and others are dealing with, putting them for the first time in a
> commercial product.
>
> What Kimmo is saying quite frankly (as he is a pure developer as opposed
> to people like me, more into words) is First Things First.
>
> He is also saying that there is plenty of work only the people in the
> Fremantle project can do, while there are many other things others can
> do thanks to all these technologies being open source.
>
> It makes sense that Nokia engineers like Kimmo concentrate first on the
> things that need to be in place in order to release a successful product
> with Maemo 5 inside.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> open source advocate
> Maemo Software @ Nokia
>



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