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> 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 l

> 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?

ldng 14y ago
No, you're not. A lot of stuff don't make too much sense. in the same vein : > 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.
- egeozcan 14y ago
  > An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ? It could help to detect if the kids thought it was a toy horse
- forgottenpaswrd 14y ago
  "An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ?" 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.
  - ldng 14y ago
    Ok, true, you've got a point, having an accelerometer isn't completely useless. Granted. 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.
- LyndsySimon 14y ago
  Well, for starters, who says the sensors have to be in the device itself? Accelerometers would be handy in gaming devices, for instance. 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.

ldng 14y ago

No, you're not. A lot of stuff don't make too much sense. in the same vein : > 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.

egeozcan 14y ago
> An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ? It could help to detect if the kids thought it was a toy horse
forgottenpaswrd 14y ago
"An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ?" 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.
- ldng 14y ago
  Ok, true, you've got a point, having an accelerometer isn't completely useless. Granted. 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.
LyndsySimon 14y ago
Well, for starters, who says the sensors have to be in the device itself? Accelerometers would be handy in gaming devices, for instance. 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.