Opera moves to Webkit, and performance on AM335x

Opera moves to Webkit. Now there are 3 major web engines to account for, 2 opensource - Webkit (Now used by Opera, Qt, Apple, Chromium), Gecko (Firefox, Forefox OS), and IE (closed platform). Other than IE, both Webkit and Gecko support WebGL.

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit

A short comparison of what performance each of these engines give on AM335x is provided in the link below:

http://gpupowered.org/node/17

Qt5.0.0 eglfs "could not create the egl surface 0x3003" - Fix details

With the final Qt5.0 release, customers using NULL window system for the SGX drivers have reported issues with Qt5.0.0 eglfs default plugin. This results in loss of critical functionality like performance, no input event support, no cursor support. This does not affect Xcb/Weston users. Details and fix information below.

Symptom of the issue:

Any Qt5 application started with "-platform eglfs" or QT_QPA_PLATFORM set to eglfs, will throw below error and exit.

EGL Error : Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x3003                     Aborted

Root-cause, and How to fix:

Refer below for the QTBUG #id, and the patch itself that applies on Qt5 sources:

https://github.com/prabindh/qt-configs/blob/master/qt5_1.0_Feb13/

Result

Customers should be able to use eglfs like in Qt5 Alpha, with cursor/touch/keyboard support, as described in below post:

http://www.gpupowered.org/node/15