Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-17 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: > Some of the developers who were packaging software for the machine > pointed out that this license was unfortunate for them, because they > were interested in getting GRUB running on the box as well, and of > course, GPLv2-only is not a

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: >> When we started looking at software for the SiliconMotion hardware (as >> part of evaluating how free software-friendly a particular machine was), >> we found a modified d

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: > When we started looking at software for the SiliconMotion hardware (as > part of evaluating how free software-friendly a particular machine was), > we found a modified driver from the SiliconMotion company that seemed to > have som

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:19:40PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: > 2010/3/16 Bridgman, John : > > Ahh, that makes sense -- so the relicensing from X11 to GPLv2 already > > happened, and the proposed relicensing was going to be from GPLv2 to v3. > > Asking if the code can be licensed back to X11

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Clark
2010/3/16 Bridgman, John : > Ahh, that makes sense -- so the relicensing from X11 to GPLv2 already > happened, and the proposed relicensing was going to be from GPLv2 to v3. > Asking if the code can be licensed back to X11 (allowing use in the X.org > project) certainly sounds like a good next s

RE: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Bridgman, John
org; Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko; Bernie Innocenti Subject: RE: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers Hi everyone, I'm sorry for the confusion that's sprung up around this issue. I hope I can get everything clarified -- I think we're all really on

RE: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Bridgman, John
.org Cc: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko; Bernie Innocenti; Brett C Smith Subject: Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: >

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: >> > The idea of this wiki: >> > http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver >>

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Octavio Rossell
I said the text may contain bugs. This is one of them and I have fixed it. Any Free Licence will work. The main problem here is a performance behaviour. Owain Ainsworth escribió: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: >> The idea of this wiki: >> http://gnu.org.ve/~oct

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread rixed
Apart from minor bugs that are already largely solved, Yeelong video driver suffers from performance issues related to video decoding. The main problem, as I understand it, appears to be that the LynxEM chipset can handle only packed YUV while most of the time frames are given as planar YUV (I'm

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: > > The idea of this wiki: > > http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver > > is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you hav

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: > The idea of this wiki: > http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver > is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info > or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) bu