David Shay wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Xavier Bachelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > On the 2D front, we have basically agreed that openchrome is the way to > go, as it is well structured and is well integrated in the FOSS > ecosystem. Harald Welte, of netfilter and Openmoko fame that VIA > recently hired as a consultant, is pushing heavily in this direction, > amongst other helpful things to close the gap between VIA and the FOSS > community. However, the openchrome driver, while having some advantages > like free modesetting, EXA support, XvMC VLD acceleration, and cleaner > > > Are we ever likely to get XvMC VLD acceleration for the CX700 now, or > will that still be off limits due to licensing restrictions? > > Licensing has never been a problem. The problem is the lack of available documentation, even under NDA. VIA cannot provide documentation because of patents/IP concerns. This is being worked on at the moment, but no ETA, sorry. One can still reverse engineer VIA's binary, but given the available manpower, I will not hold my breath.
Adding back the list to the CC: Regards, Xavier _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
