> ----- Original message ----- > From: "Foster, Dawn M" <[email protected]> > To: "Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:55:58 -0700 > > >On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Randall Arnold wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original message ----- > > > From: "Dirk Hohndel" <[email protected]> > > > To: "Nicola Mfb" <[email protected]>, "Development for the > > MeeGo Project (discussion list)" <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness > > > Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:32:54 -0700 > > > > > > > > > > > > > * not official support of meego on some hardware is community driven? > > > > > > 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 guess this is one part I don't quite get, so forgive my > > ignorance. Given the eventual breadth of MeeGo, shouldn't the > > default be agnostic to vendor-specific optimizations? Then of > > course there would be an Atom-optimized build from Intel... > > ARM-specific from others... et al... > > > > Thanks for any clarification. > > > > > This is a common approach for open source software. The person or > people who write the first version of the software select a subset of > hardware to get the project started. For example, the first version > of the Linux kernel available to the public only ran on a 386 with AT > drives, because that was what Linus Torvalds had at the time. If the > open source project is successful (as Linux has been) more and more > people will begin contributing ports of the software to additional > hardware platforms. Linux now supports many different hardware > configurations because people were willing to put in the time to add > them. > > MeeGo will eventually support a broader set of hardware, but it will > take time and contributions from the community to make it happen.
Thanks Dawn, but maybe I didn't phrase my question well. I do understand the�point of�the first build being developed for a specific platform-- I was just unclear on the optimizations part. Randy -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Mail: Making email access easy http://mail.ovi.com
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