release

[Lamarque V. Souza]

	I do not know all the details about Vivaldi delay, just know that 
drivers' source code is one the issues. The open source MALI 400 drivers are 
still working in progress and there are the other drivers (specially wifi) 
that are also very important.

	From http://www.malideveloper.com/developer-resources/drivers/open-
source-mali-gpus-linux-kernel-device-drivers.php:

"Note that these components are not a complete driver stack. To build a 
functional OpenGL ES or OpenVG driver you need access to the full source code 
of the Mali DDK, which is provided under the standard ARM commercial licence 
to all Mali GPU customers. For a complete integration of the Mali DDK with the 
X11 environment refer to the Integration Guide supplied with the Mali DDK."

	Plasma Active requires OpenGL ES (well, you can use XRender, but then it 
will consume more battery power), so this driver is not exactlly fully open 
source.

	From http://limadriver.org/:

"The Lima driver currently only has some preliminary and highly experimental 
support. This experimental phase is necessary to gain a full and complete 
understanding of how the Mali GPUs work. Once more is known, an actual 
graphics driver (most likely based off of Mesa/Gallium) can be written. There 
is a lot of interesting work that still needs to be done!"

	The driver is not ready for production yet.

Em Friday 05 October 2012, Jason H escreveu:
> But I got my tablet because it's here now, and the same hardware as the
> Vivaldi. Yes, I am aware of the Android HW GPU issue. Fortunately the
> Mali-400 HW of Vivaldi and my tablet has non-android X11 opensource
> drivers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Lamarque V. Souza <Lamarque.Souza.ext at basyskom.com>
> To: active at kde.org
> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: release
> 
> Em Friday 05 October 2012, Carl Symons escreveu:
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 15:41:16 Marco Martin wrote:
> > >> shouldn't be that big
> > > 
> > > ok :)
> > > 
> > > my next question is: based on our marketing wordsmithing (anding
> > > othering wordings ending withing 'ing'ing ;) what will our "3
> > > important messages" be that we flog in our blogs and elsewhere?
> > > 
> > > shall we start a suggestions list and then pick from them?
> > > 
> > > here's my first nomination:
> > > 
> > > * new apps -> reader, file browser, ?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Aaron J. Seigo
> > 
> > Performance and stability
> > 
> > Freedom and power to the people B^)
> 
>  
> Just to clarify this part to Jason: freedom here also involves having full
> access to the hardware you buy. You can install Linux in most of tablets
> out there (as long as the boot loader is not locked), but usually not all
> the tablet hardware will work because of lack of drivers for 3G modem,
> wifi, GPU (3D acceleration), HDMI, etc, which exist for Android but
> Android's drivers are not full compatible with other Linux kernels, so you
> cannot use their drivers in traditional Linux distributions like Mer,
> (K)Ubuntu, OpenSuse, etc. Most tablet OEMs do not understand open source
> yet and we need to convince them to release the source code of the device
> drivers they use and/or have developed. That is also one the reasons
> Vivaldi has not been shipped yet. Having a full free tablet is not easy. 


-- 
Lamarque V. Souza
http://www.basyskom.com/
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