On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:00:19PM +0700, James B wrote: > Thank you James. > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 07:55:44 +1100 > James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:46:44AM +0700, James B wrote: > > > I'm the maintainer of a small desktop Linux OS (FatdogArm) which > > > runs on many ARM platforms including OLPC XO-1.75 and XO-4; > > > together with Yioryos we released support for OLPC late last > > > year. > > > > Great! Got a link? > > Here (currently beta2 release). > http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/arm-index.html > http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/arm-latest.html
Thanks. > XO-4 was supported since alpha2 (a year ago), XO-1.75 since beta1 > (March this year). > > > > > > I have recently looked at video playback acceleration and have > > > successfully managed to get it going for other platforms, so I'm > > > thinking to do so on OLPC as well. Before I start, though, I'd > > > like to ask you about the status of marvell-ipp > > > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Vmeta) as of today? > > > > I think this page is up to date, and have been repeating the > > installation instructions on 14.1.0 (Fedora 20) in the past few > > days, but haven't finished verifying yet. > > I didn't build FatdogArm using the OS builder, and the last time I > look at OS builder I couldn't find the repository URL > there. Admittedly, I didn't look too deeply into it ... Yes, it isn't there. > > > I checked the OLPC git repos and rpmdropbox and I can't get the > > > marvel-ipp binaries there. > > > > Yes. > > So you're saying that they aren't public? But if they can be pulled > by OS builder, they are public, aren't they? The marvell-ipp binaries we host for Fedora builds are not public. olpc-os-builder can be configured to pull private resources, and the Wiki page describes how that is done. The marvell-ipp binaries we host for Android builds are public, as Ben has said. There's a license file in the same directory. > > > I can actually find these binaries by doing google search (and > > > the binaries were clearly marked for OLPC usage) but I would > > > rather be in the clear when it comes to licensing - are these > > > licensed to OLPC so that they can be used in any OS that runs on > > > the XOs, or are the license more restricted than that? (ie: no > > > license at all, license per region, official OLPC OS only, etc, > > > etc). If it is licensed freely, then is there an official > > > location where I can get this binaries? > > > > Sorry, I don't know. I have only vague recollections. Any > > research would be costly. > > No worries - perhaps others in the list know something? For > practical purposes I can use the binaries I've found and go ahead > try to make use of it, but these binaries are not distributable > there is little point of doing that. I doubt if the Fedora marvell-ipp binaries are distributable, given how they are currently hosted, and the text of the Wiki page. "These are closed source libraries provided by Marvell." > Yioryos asked the same question last year but for more specific case > of the usage of libvmeta in flashplayer and only for XO-4 case > (these binaries weren't publicly available too, but we managed to > fish it out from Australian F18 distribution - perhaps you were the > one packaging it :) ). No, I work for OLPC in Miami, in the United States, not OLPC Australia. I just happen to live in Australia. ;-) Confusing, I know. > This time around the it is for the more general purpose of using > libvmeta as general codecs, for both XO-1.75 and XO-4. I understand. > > Instead, why not look at: > > https://github.com/etnaviv/etna_viv > > Thanks, but etna_viv is the 3D driver for GPU acceleration. I may > look into that as the Vivante driver in the XOs has definite > problems too, but the question I'm asking (marvell-ipp) is for more > media playback acceleration (h264 codecs and the like). (Btw the > vivante 3D driver - libgfx etc are in the rpmdropbox so that's not a > problem). Good to know. Are there H.264 codecs and the like you can obtain from other places? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel