>________________________________________ >From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of >ext Thiago Macieira [[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:31 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] N900 Questions... > >Em Segunda-feira 22 Março 2010, às 10:21:34, Adrian Yanes escreveu: >> "Labelling MeeGo as Open Source is a promise that people don't have to >> put up with all this. I would even say it is the core differentiator of >> MeeGo against other mobile platforms based on Linux. We should take it >> seriously." >> >> If we speak a open source platform, and open development integration >> it requires commitment. >> >> With the non open source components. We are speaking about "another >> commercial project based in the open source concept, but with a big > contradictions inside of it" > >Adrian > >Please understand the difference between the project and the companies/people >shipping products based on MeeGo. > >MeeGo will be Open Source, meaning all of its core will be open. > >Now, if someone wants to put MeeGo on a device that has some hardware that the >Open Source part doesn't support, what shall they do? Think not of Nokia or >Intel here, but a small device vendor, a start-up. Please answer.
If you are the small device manufacturer, you should chose platform that supports features needed for MeeGo, It needs enough fast CPU, enough RAM and Flash and it also needs GPU and GPU needs drivers. Then you can chose either chipset with OSS GPU drivers or chipset where you can get closed source GPU drivers with reasonable terms. I am not aware any ARM based SOC that has Open source OpenGL-drivers but we did beta release of Maemo 5 that run in TI Omap 3 Beagleboard. TI Beagleboard is itself as Open source HW, you can get least old Maemo 5 running on it and you get closed OpenGL drivers as binaries. Nothing prevents anyone port up to date MeeGo on beagleboard. For Nokia it just has no longer been priority after we got N900 out. Small company can also chose Intel chipset and select one that are supported with Gallium OpenGL or other open source OpenGL driver. It is not problem of MeeGo that so many GPU or SOC manufacturers has chosen to keep GPU drivers as closed and it is every device manufacturers own decision what SOC or Chipset they chose. Kate _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
