On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
While I consider the latest development on gma500, present in many Atom
base netbooks, a great success and would like to say thank you to
developer(s),
When you say "latest development", what exactly are you referring to?
G3 software render negates all this for gnome shell as this
is extremely slow on Atom. With the fallback mode the G3 is working very
well on gma500. But the obvious question is, beside the questionable
future of acceleration on gma500 - what is the future of the fallback? Is
there still a list of devices that should use fallback "by default"? If
yes, then I would nominate the gma500 for it, as this is really horrible
experience, making many users scared, just after live CD/USB boot.
At least some parts of upstream Gnome really want fallback to go away.
They will probably get their way eventually. You would be wise not to
consider fallback mode a permanent thing.
Well, the problem there is that the determining factor in how fast
software rendering is is, obviously, not the graphics card - the whole
point of software rendering is to *bypass* the graphics card - but the
CPU.
It's slightly more complicated than that, but, sure.
I don't know if there's a plan to blacklist systems with sufficiently
'bad' CPU performance from using software rendering, or if ajax is of
the opinion that just about anything should be able to run Shell
acceptably via software rendering and if a system doesn't, there's a bug
that needs fixing...ajax, is there an overview here?
I don't currently have such a plan. I could, I guess.
My personal opinion is that Core and up are pretty tolerable and
anything less kind of isn't but also already kind of wasn't. But I no
longer really have any idea whether my threshold for acceptable
interactivity matches that of anyone else. Nor do I own any of the
non-free Intel kit - on the grounds of not rewarding Intel's duplicity -
so I have no real idea what it's like there either.
So if we want to blacklist low performers, okay, that's a thing we can
do I suppose. Where do we draw the line?
- ajax
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