Is 3D support for the BBB not planned/possible? I know we don't require it at the moment but it would be nice to have in the future (and it *might* speed up things even with the current software...).
On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Daniel Narvaez > <dwnarv...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Do you know what's the status of graphics with the BeagleBone Black? > > Sugar on the BBB should work fine with the modesetting driver OOTB > (I've still got some kernel bits to do in Fedora, 3.12 should be much > better) as it doesn't need 3D. The i.MX6 devices (WandBard, Utilite, > CuBox-i etc) should have accelerated graphics in the F-21 time frame. > > Peter > > > On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez > >> <dwnarv...@gmail.com<javascript:;> > > > >> wrote: > >> > On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson > >> > <pbrobin...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting > >> >> marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would > be > >> >> essentially unusable and have a terrible experience. > >> > > >> > > >> > Can you elaborate on why you think it would be a terrible experience > on > >> > the > >> > Raspberry Pi? I never tested it there, I was just hoping it could be a > >> > nice > >> > target... > >> > >> It's generally not particularly fast and has a number of HW problems, > >> as a "look at how cool we are" I wouldn't be chosing the RPi to run > >> sugar on Android, even on Linux the experience isn't great. > >> > >> >> There are a > >> >> number of other ARM devices that sugar runs beautifully on though. > >> > > >> > > >> > It would also be interesting to know more about these devices. With > OLPC > >> > going the Android way, I wish there was at least one popular enough > >> > device > >> > on which we could provide a really good experience (with our scarce > >> > resources). > >> > >> Well Fedora produces SoaS on ARM images that will run on any of the > >> ARM platforms Fedora supports. I would be looking at BeagleBone Black > >> [1] (improvements still needed, should be much better soon), Wandboard > >> [2], Utilite [3] (little brother to the TrimSlice) or the CuBox-i [4]. > >> The last of which has the cheapest model at $45 in a case and will be > >> much faster, we should have OOTB graphics for the last 3 devices (all > >> based on the i.MX6) in Fedora 21 (maybe later in the F-20 cycle) and > >> the experience will be much better for little to no price increase > >> over the RPi. > >> > >> [1] http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black > >> [2] http://www.wandboard.org/ > >> [3] http://utilite-computer.com/ > >> [4] http://cubox-i.com/table/ > > > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Narvaez > > > -- Daniel Narvaez
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