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

[Enrico]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:29 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi All !
>>> >
>>> > I have read from other thread, that Freescale iMX 6 provides better
>>> > access to docs than Allwinner does.
>>>
>>>  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).
>>
>> 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.

hehe, "where compliance with copyright, trademarks and patents are
pretty meaningless"

and

"strategy to leverage proper (and ultimately full) GPL compliance out
of PRC SoC vendors."

If you are ok with the first you cannot ask for GPL compliance ;)

Enrico