[Arm-netbook] allwinner A31 processor

[luke.leighton]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM, michel memeteau <contact at ekimia.fr> wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> As I did not read all the posts for few weeks :
>
> 2012/12/12 Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com>
>
>> Again, without free software drivers for 3D and Video decoding,
>> Allwinner chips are pretty useless for the GNU/Linux community.
>
>
> Yes I agree but what the F**** ARM is doing ? I guess they understood that
> massive adpotion of an ARM GPU is now linked with linux kernel support and
> a Chip that would have its drivers included in the kernel would definitely
> kill all the others thanks to android, so why don't they provide source
> drivers ?
>
>
because from what i can gather they don't own the rights to the source
code: they're licensing it from Mediatek, the original creators of the MALI
core.

employees internally have told the ARM Management till they're blue in the
face to get this sorted out: they're not listening.

l.
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