<div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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...).</span></font></div>
<font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font>On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Do you know what's the status of graphics with the BeagleBone Black?<br>
<br>
Sugar on the BBB should work fine with the modesetting driver OOTB<br>
(I've still got some kernel bits to do in Fedora, 3.12 should be much<br>
better) as it doesn't need 3D. The i.MX6 devices (WandBard, Utilite,<br>
CuBox-i etc) should have accelerated graphics in the F-21 time frame.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
> On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'pbrobinson@gmail.com')">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting<br>
>> >> marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would be<br>
>> >> essentially unusable and have a terrible experience.<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Can you elaborate on why you think it would be a terrible experience on<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > Raspberry Pi? I never tested it there, I was just hoping it could be a<br>
>> > nice<br>
>> > target...<br>
>><br>
>> It's generally not particularly fast and has a number of HW problems,<br>
>> as a "look at how cool we are" I wouldn't be chosing the RPi to run<br>
>> sugar on Android, even on Linux the experience isn't great.<br>
>><br>
>> >> There are a<br>
>> >> number of other ARM devices that sugar runs beautifully on though.<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > It would also be interesting to know more about these devices. With OLPC<br>
>> > going the Android way, I wish there was at least one popular enough<br>
>> > device<br>
>> > on which we could provide a really good experience (with our scarce<br>
>> > resources).<br>
>><br>
>> Well Fedora produces SoaS on ARM images that will run on any of the<br>
>> ARM platforms Fedora supports. I would be looking at BeagleBone Black<br>
>> [1] (improvements still needed, should be much better soon), Wandboard<br>
>> [2], Utilite [3] (little brother to the TrimSlice) or the CuBox-i [4].<br>
>> The last of which has the cheapest model at $45 in a case and will be<br>
>> much faster, we should have OOTB graphics for the last 3 devices (all<br>
>> based on the i.MX6) in Fedora 21 (maybe later in the F-20 cycle) and<br>
>> the experience will be much better for little to no price increase<br>
>> over the RPi.<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black" target="_blank">http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="http://www.wandboard.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wandboard.org/</a><br>
>> [3] <a href="http://utilite-computer.com/" target="_blank">http://utilite-computer.com/</a><br>
>> [4] <a href="http://cubox-i.com/table/" target="_blank">http://cubox-i.com/table/</a><br>
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> --<br>
> Daniel Narvaez<br>
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</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Daniel Narvaez<br><br>