[Arm-netbook] http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/the-raspberry-pi-suck s.html

[Gordan Bobic]

On 06/20/2012 12:03 PM, "Sztupák Sz. Zsolt" <mail at sztupy.hu>" wrote:
> 2012.06.20. 12:59 keltezéssel, Gordan Bobic írta:
>> On 06/20/2012 11:25 AM, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:16:13 +0100
>>> Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> If that is such a big issue (and it is certainly not a trivial issue),
>>>> then maybe pursuing an ARM solution is wrong in the first place and we
>>>> should be pursuing a solution based on Loongson MIPS, a-la Leemote
>>>> Yeeloong or similar.
>>> They haven't (yet?) made any graphics chips. The laptops use 2d-only chips from SMI, with open specs; the desktops use XGI chips, without open specs but with a RE-d open 2d driver IIRC.
>>>
>>> So no magic open 3d with Loongson either.
>> I have not yet heard a compelling argument for why 3D is actually
>> needed. A lightweight ARM laptop isn't going to be a gaming rig by any
>> length of imagination anyway. An ARM server isn't going to need graphics
>> of any description at all.
>>
>> Why the ongoing hang-up about 3D graphics? Seriously, what is the point?
>>
>> Gordan
>>
> OpenGL is also used for hardware acceleration for 2D graphics, so it is
> also usable for non-gaming apps. And the more HTML5-heavy sites there
> are the more hardware acceleration is needed for them.

Given the popularity and relative frequency of use, I'd be more 
concerned about the lack of flash (as a nice little illustration that 
closed/proprietary software is no less evil than lack of features 
because the end result is the same).

Gordan