Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Friday 06 June 2008 09:45:29 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > the problem is - if you have a nice screen but the engine to power it is > underpowered, you will suffer from complaints of it just being slow then > instead. I'd like to wave the little "please can we have a decent SoC" flag again. Yes, t

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Thursday 05 June 2008 10:29:36 Andy Green wrote: > The Glamo offers normal async memory bus interface which we use, but it > has a bunch of timing constraints. (There is a synchronous burst bus > mode that we don't use because the CPU doesn't support it and adding a > CPLD in there to translate

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Thursday 05 June 2008 11:29:10 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:33:58 +0200 Tom Cooksey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > On Wednesday 04 June 2008 21:56:56 Andy Green wrote: > > > | IMO, OpenMoko's choice of using the the glamo was a bi

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 21:56:56 Andy Green wrote: > | IMO, OpenMoko's choice of using the the glamo was a big mistake > (Connecting it to a > | shared, 4-bit bus was probably the _biggest_ mistake). > > Huh what? It's a 16-bit memory bus, maybe you mean 2^4 ;-) When I > actually use the thing

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 09:06:35 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > the day nvidia comes with open drivers for this... we can begin to take an > interest :) Sorry, just how open is the current glamo driver exactly? IMO, OpenMoko's choice of using the the glamo was a big mistake (Connecting it to a share

Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 21:45:37 Michael Shiloh wrote: > * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF, and > Python applications all at the same time Hmmm... Just wondering if anyone has seen this: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/ Ba

Problems building pth

2008-05-22 Thread Tom Cooksey
Hiya, I have been having problems with pth for some time (at least a month). I've held off posting, hoping it would get fixed before I needed a build. Sadly, I need a build for next week and it is still failing with: pth_mctx.c:476:2: error: #error "Unsupported Linux (g)libc version and/or platf

Re: [Announcement] MokoMakefile updated for switch to git

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 13:13:33 Roland Häder wrote: > On Wednesday, 21. May 2008, Tom Cooksey wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 10:19:49 Rod Whitby wrote: > > > Holger Freyther wrote: > > > > To unify our tools we have reduced the number of SCMs to learn from &g

Re: [Announcement] MokoMakefile updated for switch to git

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 10:19:49 Rod Whitby wrote: > Holger Freyther wrote: > > To unify our tools we have reduced the number of SCMs to learn from three > > to > > two. This means we only use subversion and git for now. I have moved the > > Openembedded metadata from monotone to git. > ... > >

Re: Errr... 3d status?

2008-05-08 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:23:30 Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > Well, i don't want to make any flame/spam/anything-like-that, just a > question to clarify how is the situation. Well, on the neo freerunner > there will be the 3d capable chip which has its spec under NDA so it's > impossible f

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Monday 28 April 2008 17:31:10 Mikko Rauhala wrote: > On ma, 2008-04-28 at 09:26 -0500, Tim Shannon wrote: > > But isn't it still limited by the bandwidth available from the micro > > SD card? Maybe I misunderstood that. > > Yes it is. It's just that sending mpeg4 packets to the glamo takes j

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Monday 28 April 2008 10:32:22 Bin Chen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Tom Cooksey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:20:12 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > > again - we could do better if we limited ourselves to just mpeg4

Re: Video Playback virtually impossible on Neo Freerunner? (Re: Video of Qt 4.4 on Neo1973: brings iPhone like graphics)

2008-04-28 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:20:12 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > again - we could do better if we limited ourselves to just mpeg4 (which is > what > almost all phones do - they do only 1 codec or maybe 2), but the problem here > is that xv does not provide a way to do this sanely (stream just mpeg4 d

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?

2008-04-07 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Monday 07 April 2008 14:00:42 Federico Lorenzi wrote: > First off, this is by no means official in any way. Vote on [1] if you > _think_ 3G is essential for a successor to FreeRunner Depends on what you mean by 3G? If you mean 3G as in HSPA then yes, it's a useful feature to have when out of ra

Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Sunday 30 March 2008 13:42:23 Harald Welte wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:46:52PM +0100, joerg wrote: > > Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > > > >

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Cooksey
> > I had those questions too, I think that when 3D specs of the Glamo chip > > will be available, it will be possible to make some 3D-accelerated > > tasks, but I've no idea about the performances of this chip. Anyway I > > don't think it's so great... > > Right, but because it is local to the gl

FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Cooksey
A friend just forwarded this on to me: http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/news/articles/20017514053.html Please, PLEASE tell me this is not true? Or at least it's the consumer version that's delayed? Cheers, Tom ___ OpenMoko community mai