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

[Xianghua Xiao]

imx6 GPU is from Vivante and I doubt we can ever get source code on that.
imx6 has PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet, especially PCIe provides the
expansion potential for other markets.
the issue is about unit price, and availability.
Also, as far as power management goes, it looks like A10 does a better
job as well.

Xianghua

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>  Alexey> Hi All !
>>  Alexey> I have read from other thread, that Freescale iMX 6 provides better
>>  Alexey> access to docs than Allwinner does.
>>
>>  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:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> http://www.chipsnmedia.com/product_search/product_view.php?part_idx=20&idx=53
>
>  aww, awesome.
>
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