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

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at sunsite.dk
Sun Jul 1 21:19:15 BST 2012


>>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> writes:

 Alexey> Hi All !
 Alexey> I have read from other thread, that Freescale iMX 6 provides better
 Alexey> access to docs than Allwinner does.

 Alexey> Is it enough to build Open-Source drivers for it's VPU ?

Yes. There's even two v4l drivers in progress for the coda9xx vpu:

https://lwn.net/Articles/502587/

These still need closed source firmware for the bit processor, but the
ARM side is open.

The VPU block is from Chips&media:

http://www.chipsnmedia.com/product_search/product_view.php?part_idx=20&idx=53

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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