With ARM devices reaching over 512 MB of RAM(including end user devices) and microSDs with over 16 GB of space available, I wouldn't say those are the limiting factors... I do doubt the ability of the GPUs in SoCs being able to run FG. Theoretically it's possible(OSG supports OpenGL ES), but in practice playing a slideshow simulator isn't something anyone would enjoy. > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Erik Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 14:32 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > > Also, we have older packages that were available for Sun, > sgi, and > > FreeBSD. Can anyone comment on the latest package versions > available > > for these platforms and if we still want to list them on our > download > > page? Who's going to be the first to come out with an > Android > > package? :-) > > > Android (ARM) won't work since ARM only supports float´s in > hardware and > not double's. > > > I don't know about all hardware, but on ARM7/9, software double > floating point is actually surprisingly good, much better than you'd > probably imagine. But finding hardware with enough RAM and drive > space might be the bigger challenge (and I'm not sure about support > for compiling raw C/C++ code, although I heard that might exist or > could possible exist in the future.) > > > The omap3 has good hardware floating point (double) support. So I'm > sure there are existing chips that wouldn't do so well, but there are > also existing chips that should do pretty well. > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson: > http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/ > http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
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