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

[Henrik Nordström]

tis 2012-06-26 klockan 16:04 +0200 skrev Henrik Nordström:
> tis 2012-06-26 klockan 13:26 +0100 skrev lkcl luke:
> 
> >  there might be a third way: altruism.  i may try the route "look, we
> > got you orders of magnitude 10e6, you've made money comfortably, and
> > your business is stable and not at risk.  how about you help us to
> > help you, by releasing the cedarx source code and other bits?"
> 
> But why?

Just realized I was a bit short there, not illustrating the point, meant
to say

But why? Business already running.

> >  perhaps with a leeetle bit of "stick" in as well, by mentioning that
> > people like doing reverse-engineering and that would mean that the
> > copyright notice on code distributed with *their* product would be
> > some random person and not "Copyright (C) Allwinner Tech" :)
> 
> I don't see how this would work.
> 
> Convince them to release more details on the CedarX hardware design
> might work, indirectly aiding development of a free driver. But I would
> not count on it.
> 
> Freeing a proprietary piece of software (or hardware) which has been
> proprietary for many years is inherently complex process. And efficient
> video decoding is a lot about software. And it's a key technology for
> Allwinner. And it's a company where marketing do not understand why
> arch/arm/mach-XXXX/ needs to be provided in source form.
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
> 
> 
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