The OMAP platform comes with a TI CMS320C55x DSP, that handles the decoding of multimedia and some drawing too. It can be used pretty flexibly. Also, the software will probably get optimized a lot more than it currently is, so everything should be faster by the time the device ships.
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:21 -0300, ext Wooky wrote: > After reading jk's excellent review, a fear of mine was brought up: > that N770 could be slow for multimedia purposes, specially video > playing. I had the impression an 200Mhz ARM CPU isn't quite capable of > decoding and displaying video at full-screen at such a high resolution > by itself. Will N770 come with some dedicated video > accelerator/decoder? If so, what about the drivers for te X-server? > > I also read that N770's bluetooth will not broadcast it's address for > seurity reasons. As noted in the review, this might make it impossible > to write drivers for existing bluetooth devices. One of my hopes was > to get drivers for the ThinkOutside BT keyboard working in N770 > (though I'd probably have to wait for the real hardware to be > released), but this scared me. Is this restriction set up in > ROM/firmware (so it could be overrun) or is it some limitation of the > BT chipset itself? > > Jeferson Lopes Zacco > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
