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

Alejandro Mery amery at geeks.cl
Tue Jun 26 15:35:21 BST 2012


On 26 June 2012 16:14, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Henrik Nordström
> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>  yeahhhh... i know.  *grumble*.  any other ideas?

I believe it should be approached buy the number and importance of
frameworks and known apps that will gain proper cedarx support, and so
new allwinner-based products to be made and sold, without them needing
to invest anything for it



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