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<Arch-TK>
At this point I honestly don't understand what GPUs have that is so special that all companies producing them must keep it secret in the form of proprietary drivers.
<wpwrak>
Arch-TK: "i could tell you but then i'd have to kill you" :)
<Arch-TK>
Maybe at the rate the Neo900 project is going, someone will release a PowerVR SGX530 compatible Open GPU which doesn't suck.
<Arch-TK>
Or maybe I'm wishing for the impossible.
<wpwrak>
n900/neo900 is pretty low-res by today's standards. chances are that even a weak GPU would do very well.
<wpwrak>
that was the big surprise we had at openmoko. gta01 had a monstrous gui that was very slow. so we put a "GPU" into gta02. that GPU turned out to decelerate graphics most of the time, instead of accelerating them.
<Arch-TK>
And with what I'll be doing with it (running ncurses in terminal windows, and a really basic touch based i3 inspired WM) I doubt it would even need the proprietary drivers.
<wpwrak>
meanwhile, someone made a new GUI for the GTA01 that was lean and fast. and suddenly that old critter ran circles around GTA02 ...
<wpwrak>
Arch-TK: yeah, exactly. most things don't really need a GPU, especially not if your resolution is relatively low.
<Arch-TK>
I really wonder how well / badly ncurses mouse support would fair when it's done through touch.
<Arch-TK>
I have to get my N900 out at some point after summer and start building up a working phone distro for it.
<Arch-TK>
I guess web browsers are possibly the worst culprit for eating CPU and sometimes GPU.
<Arch-TK>
I guess most of the CPU is eaten by websites which are over-complicated and filled with javascript.
<wpwrak>
probably 90% of what your cpu does is somehow manage ads :)
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