On 07/07/10 00:32, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
Again, the default builds that we provide are optimized for Atom - I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's fairly straight forward to build for other platforms if you need that, but I think it is not a reasonable request that we shouldn't optimize for our platform.
I think this is one area where people really need to think carefully about whether they have an Intel, Nokia or MeeGo hat on. The "we"s in that sentence are a tad ambiguous.
Clearly when *Intel* ship MeeGo-on-atom it should be polished, focused and optimised.
However, MeeGo makes many claims to be open and inclusive; shouldn't it seek to minimise barriers to entry? Personally I think it should be easy to run it on old and non-Intel hardware; and ideally I think it would be great to fall back to software-rendered GL.
OTOH when you put this in front of journalists/marketing people they'll fire it up, say "this is slow so it sucks", and promptly broadcast their opinion loudly; so I can see some merit in having an optimised solution available :)
So... tough question: is the MeeGo build system optimised for Atom for Intel's benefit or MeeGo's benefit?
David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
