>> The video decompression acceleration will be a huge value. The primary
>> test is of course YouTube which I think means Flash flv. I would put
>> that on an early test list and I hope there's no driver incompatible BS
>> like with Geode. The H. codecs could pay off in better video
>> conferencin
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> The video decompression acceleration will be a huge value. The primary
> test is of course YouTube which I think means Flash flv. I would put
> that on an early test list and I hope there's no driver incompatible BS
> like with Geode. The H. cod
Hi Ed, Wad, Chris et al,
Awesome new hardware!
That's one thing I loved about working at HW companies, the longer you
survive the more hurdles you cross.
IMHO 3D/2D is better than 2D only, if you can get it to work.
I see bigger value in the video acceleration and input. The video
capture is
> I do not know. I tried to download the specification to their processor
> and gave up after seeing the massive registration and request forms
> required. It is clearly ridiculous. If somebody has the spec please put
> it onto the wiki, please.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specificatio
> But this should improve with VIA now having employed Harald Welte of
> gnuviolations.org fame to help them move forward in the open source
> world. They have released their drivers and some manuals for their
> GPUs now. So no 3D just yet, but then that's not exactly a regression
> compared to th
> John Watlington wrote:
>> The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2]. This
>> single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD
>> video decoder
>
> It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either
> of these features is a pure binary blob. The Openc
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John Watlington wrote:
> The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2]. This
> single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD
> video decoder
It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either
of these featu
I was referring to flash capacity which will enable it to run the filesystem
uncompressed. On gen1 you have no swap, scarce RAM and a compressed
filesystem that the CPU must deal with when it needs to get something from
the flash, which is mostly all the time IMHO.
Best regards
On Sat, Apr 18, 20
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Bobby Powers wrote:
> the announcement said they were upping the RAM to 1GB DDR2.
Exactly -- lots of questions. And between the added RAM, removing
jffs2 (the external controller has something ftl-ish) and the
streamlining of the storage access, I am excited.
Now
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>> >>
>> >> OLPC is excited to announce that a refres
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
> >>
> >> OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in
> >> progress. In our continued effort to
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>>
>> OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in
>> progress. In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC
>> is refreshing the hardware to ta
>> The processor will be a VIA C7-M [1], with plans on using one whose
>> clock ranges from 400 MHz (1.5 W) to 1GHz (5 W). The clock may be
>> throttled back automatically if necessary to meet thermal constraints.
>
> I'm hoping for a lot closer to 1GHz than 400MHz or it won't be much
> different
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in
> progress. In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC
> is refreshing the hardware to take advantage of the latest component
> technologies. This ref
This sounds great, the description makes it sound as if the
plastic will be the same. Does this imply that a new mother
board will fit into the existing plastic?
Mark
On Apr 17, 2009 Friday, at 2:24:21:0, John Watlington wrote:
>
> OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 l
On 18 Apr 2009, at 14:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC :
>
>> Hi!
>> I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff:
>>>
Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that
new
software is going to require a computer more
Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC :
> Hi!
> I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff:
>>
>>> Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that
>>> new
>>> software is going to require a computer more powerful than they
>>> currently have? I thought that that wa
Hi!
I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff:
Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new
software is going to require a computer more powerful than they
currently have? I thought that that was something that was going to be
specifically avoided.
This
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Neil Graham wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:24 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
>> The design goal is to provide an overall update
>> of the system within the same ID and external appearance.
>>
>> In order to maximize compatibility with existing software, this
>>
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:24 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> The design goal is to provide an overall update
> of the system within the same ID and external appearance.
>
> In order to maximize compatibility with existing software, this
> refresh will continue with an x86 processor, using a chipset
[forwarding to IAEP and sugar-devel]
Awesome news, now we don't need to worry about performance any more :p
Good luck with the remaining work,
Tomeu
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 21:24, John Watlington wrote:
>
> OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in
> progress. In our
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