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

[Xianghua Xiao]

I don't think Freescale bought Vivante...

Xianghua

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua at gmail.com> wrote:
>> imx6 GPU is from Vivante and I doubt we can ever get source code on that.
>
>  well, freescale bought the company (vivante) which is an extremely
> good strategic move.  it places freescale in a position to move
> quickly to software (libre) compliance should it prove financially
> necessary for them to do so.  without buying vivante they would be
> entirely at the mercy of either a) vivante's investors b) the market.
>
>  l.
>
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