[Openchrome-users] VIA and OpenChrome

[Xavier Bachelot]

David Shay wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org 
> <mailto:xavier at bachelot.org>> 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