* where does viafb go?
@ 2009-01-04 12:24 Marc Blumentritt
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From: Marc Blumentritt @ 2009-01-04 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-fbdev-devel
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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