From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Blumentritt Subject: where does viafb go? Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:24:22 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sfi-mx-2.v28.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.28.122] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by 335xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LK69f-0002yQ-DW for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:11 +0000 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by 72vjzd1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1LK69e-00028G-H4 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:10 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LK69X-0001g9-KX for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:04 +0000 Received: from dslb-088-070-011-246.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.70.11.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:03 +0000 Received: from marc.blumentritt by dslb-088-070-011-246.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:03 +0000 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------