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

[Alexey Eromenko]

>  but that's not the end of the story: we know full well that such
> advanced instructions are utterly useless unless they are deeply
> embedded into the compiler toolchain in an easy-to-use manner that
> boils down at its crudest to "just hit compile".  that's why they have
> a compiler expert on board with at least 20 years experience in
> compiler technology.

NOTE: even on modern CPUs not everything is done automatically via GCC.

Even with x86, many parts are done manually, in assembly, such as
hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x), encryption (Intel AES-NI).

For this CPU the hardware drivers (for video decoding, 2D and 3D)
could use the CPU in this case, but must be manually tuned (probably
in assembly).

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"