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

[lkcl luke]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> writes:
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>  Alexey> Hi All !
>  Alexey> I have read from other thread, that Freescale iMX 6 provides better
>  Alexey> access to docs than Allwinner does.
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>  Alexey> Is it enough to build Open-Source drivers for it's VPU ?
>
> Yes. There's even two v4l drivers in progress for the coda9xx vpu:
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> https://lwn.net/Articles/502587/
>
> These still need closed source firmware for the bit processor, but the
> ARM side is open.
>
> The VPU block is from Chips&media:
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> http://www.chipsnmedia.com/product_search/product_view.php?part_idx=20&idx=53

 aww, awesome.