Nick Hughart wrote: > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:10 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:35 -0300 "imx31cpu ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am new to the enlightment world and I will soon (tomorrow) start trying >>>> to >>>> port it to an embedded system (Freescale i.MX31 PDK - >>>> http://www.freescale.com/imx31pdk). >>>> >>>> Since I am not an experient developer on the linux environment I will >>>> probably have a hard time doing that so I would like to know if any of you >>>> have already tryed to do this porting or if you have any suggestion that >>>> might help me to have enlightment running on this system. >>>> >>>> >>> in fact.. you have to do almost no work... get openembedded up and working. >>> openmoko uses it 0 for am arm based phone. mamona uses it for a fully open >>> build for the nokia n8xx (arm based).. etc. etc. >>> >>> as such - all you need is an xserver.. and e will work. there is no porting >>> to >>> do that is arm-related - the code has been fixed and cleaned long ago so it >>> "just works"... once you compile it. your biggest problem is a cross-compile >>> environment for building software - you need to solve this anyway - and once >>> you do (openembedded is a good option here), things just work. openembedded >>> already has builds for enlightenment in it - as far as illume goes - it's a >>> module for e17 to make e have a ui layout/setup that is much more >>> "phone/pda/handheld device" friendly ui. >>> >>> >> well, I think his "port" was more about getting E into ltib, the >> canonical imx31 build platform. It's something like openembedded, but >> instead of .bb they use handicapped .rpm, with no dependency in the >> .rpm, since they moved dependency tracking to kconfig (linux kernel >> config/menuconfig, like busybox did) >> >> ProFUSION just got one imx31 board from freescale brazil, we did some >> packages but they're not finished yet. >> >> >> >> >>> as vincent mentioned... openglES is an interesting idea - to date i have not >>> had any time to really look at it. i know leonardo started playing with >>> it... >>> but didn't have any success. one day i'll get to it! :) but as such most of >>> the >>> work is done in the gl engine - it just needs some changes to adapt to GLES. >>> >>> >> Since we got one of these boards, we may try to give gles a try. But >> really, before even trying I might talk to you to check for things to >> look, like analyzing texture size and upload bandwidth, otherwise the >> port will be useless... BTW, on my macbook with intel 965 mobile >> expedite reports about 2x gains on the software engine compared to gl, >> and this is using newer mesa/x, so I get the shaders and all fancy >> stuff on these boards.... Evas software engine rocks hard :-) >> >> > A bit off-topic, but bear with me :) > > Well the i965 driver is actually quite shitty atm. They are working > more on render acceleration then 3D acceleration at this point from what > I've seen. > > I just tested expedite on my NVIDIA 6600gt and it pretty much creamed > the software engine in almost every test. The only ones that the > software really pulled out ahead where some of the simpler blending > tests near the end. Text rendering was even much faster which is > something that I've never seen till I tested on this card. So there may > still be hope for the GL engine :) > Gah, screwed that up. The first sentence was talking about using the GL engine in expedite. > Another note, the XRender engine still sucks with NVIDIA :P > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >
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