> OpenGL ES driver comes with the Android kernel, released by the hw manufacturer, so SurfaceFlinger works right-away.
This doesn't make sense to me, a PC or laptop doesn't have a mobile phone GPU. Or am I missing something here?
This doesn't make sense to me, a PC or laptop doesn't have a mobile phone GPU. Or am I missing something here?
> acceleration sensor, camera and GPS services would > also become easy accessible for traditional Linux applications
What good does it do if the hardware isn't available to a PC ? An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ?
Too much assumptions in this speculative article. Not that any of it is impossible to achieve but some would require a lot more work than it seem and some wouldn't make much sense for the PC.
Integration between the different flavor of Ubuntu doesn't have to be so low level.
It is. You could use the tower in a wheel table like the Valve guys are doing, or inside any machine like cars or trucks or robots(btw I do so every single day), and they become useful for protecting hard drives, or rough sensing the movement of the car, or someone trying to steal the thing in the laboratory and activating a sound alarm.'
We use lots of accelerometers in the lab today connected to computers. I'd love to use a common API integrated in the OS for accessing them.
I would be able to rotate the screens of my arm mounted imac without having to press complex key bindings like today.
But I was talking standard PC, not appliance and in that sense, that reusability of drivers _today_ isn't very high. Makers don't put accelerometer on mobo. So to me the argument is kind of moot, IMHO.
It could help to detect if the kids thought it was a toy horse
I'm not positing this as a huge win for Linux, but it's not useless either. Built-in GPS would be fairly cool for a laptop, even if it's just for wardriving or something.