[Arm-netbook] Any ARM SoC has Open-Source access to hardware video decoder ?

[Mark Wilczynski]

> From: al4321 at gmail.com
> How much the ICube's IC1 costs ?
> 
> Also one of the BIG problems, at least initially, is that it uses MVP
> architecture, which would require maintaining a full linux distro for
> it (Debian?).
> Is anyone learning this opportunity ?
> Are there weak points in this design ?
> 

I find it hard to believe that a software based GPU/VPU will offer competitive performance vs. fixed function hardware rasterizers, samplers, and decoders.  It has been tried before and failed.  Unless their instruction set is radically different from MMX, SSE, NEON, etc. 		 	   		  
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