From: Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@arcor.de>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: where does viafb go?
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:24:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gjq9pm$p5u$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
Hi,
recently viafb was added to linux 2.6.28. While it allows to use VIA's
graphic cards directly via framebuffer, it does not support all hardware
features (e.g. the mpeg-2 decoder or mpeg-4 accelerator). As far as I
know VIA will not publish any code about this, because of possibly
License problems [1]. On the other hand, there is a X driver [2], which
does support at least part of these features (mpeg-2 decoder) and VIA is
working together with this project.
My question is: does anyone here now about future development of the
viafb driver to support these features?
Thanks for any info in advance.
Marc
[1]
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/09/01#20080901-via-xorg-opensource-faq
[2] http://www.openchrome.org/
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