On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > from what i heard (an i have been a Mini-Itx Follower for over 5 years > now) is that Via had just a few days ago released all their drivers for > the Mini-ITX chipsets under open source licenses (including the graphics > acceleration) to boost linux support for its boards in the embedded/PVR > market. > > This means that the Mini-ITX's should soon have very good (if not > excellent) open source support, but currently we have to wait for all > these opensource drivers to be implemented by the community (they were > released only a few days ago, not enough > time to gather volunteers to develop/cleanup the code, merge with linux > kernel etc...)
AFAIK this is not completely correct, as the mpeg-2 decoder is still a binary module with no available source code. This may apply to other parts of the hardware too. >From my point of view with a 1G-1.2G processor, the hardware mpeg-2 decoding is a key component, leave it out of the open bundle and its very annoying. > > Here is the news item regarding the drivers: > > http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=508&mode=&order=0&thold=0 > > > Also note that you can get PCI riser cards which will give you two PCI > slots with the mini-itx (there exist ones which even give three slots, > but these are rare (and quite pricy) ) > > And there is in the works an EPIA-specific linux distro (with all the > drivers/kernel patches already in there) which is in beta (and i think > its based on gentoo, not sure, better check). Its known as /epiOS. /If > you have to have support for the hardware now (before the VIA drivers > become stable and merged into the general kernel tree) i would suggest > to try that distro. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
