On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Brendan Le Foll <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 July 2011 07:48, Alison Chaiken <[email protected]> wrote: >> I purchased a Snowball but have volunteered to test it in the fedora-arm >> project, which does not require hardfp drivers like MeeGo 1.2. Until >> there are new BSPs with hardfp drivers for the Beagle, Panda, Snowball or >> Origen boards, there are no attractive options for ARM-based IVI >> development. Alex, you can still develop MeeGo-1.1 on the Panda or Beagle >> with the existing softfp GPU drivers, and the beagleboard.org and >> pandaboard.org website list a number of compatible touchscreens. Given how >> beefy the Cortex A-9 is, 1.2 will undoubtedly run without the GPU, but the >> UI may well be jerky and unresponsive. >> > > There is the trimslice (tegra2) that has just been released with > hardfp drivers. See wiki.meego.com/ARM/TEGRA2 So far that's probably > your best bet for an IVI ARM platform.
A good platform indeed. But unlikely the best one. Good luck getting the toolchain for that as well as getting binary blobs opened up so you can do other types of acceleration beyond hardfp. Trimslice ships with Ubuntu 10.04 anyway which has a lot of software for IVI as well so installing MeeGo IVI on that is somewhat unnecessary. Furthermore there is no official MeeGo IVI ARM release so you'll have to support the software yourself. If you want to do MeeGo IVI hardfp I recommend the OMAP 3 processor in the form of the Beagleboard C4 and xM. There are touch screen monitors that work quite well with this set up. I recommend the lilliput and there is an Xorg config that should work. Note that TI has not released hardfp drivers for a lot of things but they also say that hardfp does not speed up 3D graphics that considerably so living without it might work, I'm sure there will be hardfp stuff available from them soon. (At least I hope so.) STEricsson is unlikely to support IVI software and MeeGo on the Snowball, at least according to STEricsson themselves, the Snowball is more geared to the handset market. That doesn't really matter of course, you can run whatever you want on your own hardware. If you have any issues installing or running software do report your issues here since there should be someone who can help. Regards, Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-ivi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-ivi
