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

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:32 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All !
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>> > I have read from other thread, that Freescale iMX 6 provides better
>> > access to docs than Allwinner does.
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>>  yes - but so what?  you're not comparing like with like.  imx6 has
>> great docs, but no silicon yet.  allwinner has an A10 CPU (Cortex A8)
>> that has been shipping in huuuuge volume for over a year.  freescale
>> are a U.S.-based corporation that anyone could sue the pants off and
>> impound all product _and_ get them in court; allwinner are a PRC-based
>> company where compliance with copyright, trademarks and patents are
>> pretty meaningless (*1).
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> Sigh, this becomes an advantage.

 yes.  unfortunately :)  it saves both time and money on the part of
the SoC vendor.  i'm still trying to get my head round a strategy to
leverage proper (and ultimately full) GPL compliance out of PRC SoC
vendors.

 l.