Re: Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Rafaël Carré
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:28:15 -0500 Paul Louden wrote: > Rafaël Carré wrote: > > The "top-tier" category would include targets where the OF is not > > needed at all anymore. > > > This is going to rule out some players forever (for example, we can > never support DRM and possibly some propriet

Re: Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Louden
Rafaël Carré wrote: To me it would mean anything but video DSP, DRM crypto units and dock connector (for devices plugged to iPods), does that sound correct ? That's more or less fine. I'm not really able to think about the details right now. It's just not good to say or even suggest that "t

Re: Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Martitz
On 12.10.2009 00:07, Dave Chapman wrote: All, I've been thinking a bit about the target classifications, and have come to the conclusion that we now have a large number of ports, in a wide variety of states of completion, that the current 3 categories is not enough. I would like to see the

Re: Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Louden
Rafaël Carré wrote: The "top-tier" category would include targets where the OF is not needed at all anymore. This is going to rule out some players forever (for example, we can never support DRM and possibly some proprietary audio or video formats). Maybe instead we should have a list of re

Re: Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Rafaël Carré
Le 12/10/2009 00:07, Dave Chapman a écrit : > Thoughts? Or am I going round in circles (apologies if I haven't read > all previous discussions on this issue...) Interesting, I fully agree with your proposal. The "top-tier" category would include targets where the OF is not needed at all anymore

Target classifications v2 ?

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Chapman
All, I've been thinking a bit about the target classifications, and have come to the conclusion that we now have a large number of ports, in a wide variety of states of completion, that the current 3 categories is not enough. I would like to see the addition of a "top-tier" category - one th