Thread: Open source hardware drivers for Nokia tablets problematics
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2011-06-03 , 12:34
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Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
...There's much to be gained from hardware manufacturers such as ImgTec(SGX) and others to keep their IPR/source closed.
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I won't go into N8x0, 770 as the situation is much worse there than on the N900...

My stance is that well-maintained closed source redistributable binaries are better than none at all. And even with those binaries, we actively try to see what we reasonably can get open sourced.

Redistributable SGX drivers (libraries) were a win, compared to the crap situation before.
This is useful information, which even if you did post before got lost because of various other "contributions". Are we to imply from this that improved drivers exist? If so, how far do these drivers go to fixing the vsync and playback-framedrop problems?

From the point of view of a distictly amature graphics programmer, it would be good to know is how available these updated drivers are: can they be/are they ready to be installed by users and application (not OS) developers. And, are they accompanied by headers for us to create our own (?redistributable/oss) software?
Last edited by demolition; 2011-06-03 at 12:41.
 

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