[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?
Nicolas Will
nico at youplala.net
Tue Feb 12 17:35:25 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
> > Intel has released stuff that was only in the hands of a few people:
> > the full specs. So expect a lot more people to be able to code on
> the
> > Intel driver from now on.
>
> So, if I were a gambling man, and wanted to bet the farm on Intel
> hardware
> becoming "fully unlocked"
It is fully unlocked:
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
> ie nvidia purevideo...for linux, I would go with
> an intel chipset instead of an nvidia?
This is my bet. Each his own bets.
>
> I haven't followed or heard of the intel full specs being released.
I had sent an email on this list on the date of the announcement.
Intel Releases Programmers Reference Manual
The Intel Graphics Development Group and Intel Open Source
Technology Center are pleased to announce the release of the
Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family and Intel® G35 Express Chipset
Graphics Controller Programmers Reference Manual under the
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United
States License. This four volume set of manuals documents all
portions of the hardware necessary to produce and maintain a
complete driver, including accelerated media encoding and
decoding, 2D and 3D graphics.
Containing over 1600 pages of text and figures, the Programmers
Reference Manual includes everything from low level register
definitions and discussions on how each functional hardware
block works through descriptions about the hardware
architecture. Each documented feature includes a discussion on
how the hardware works and how the hardware designers expected
the software to operate.
The manual was written to support external software developers,
allowing them to work independently of Intel support resources.
The availability of this manual enables the free software
community to develop and maintain software related to Intel
graphics hardware for many applications and operating systems.
This release demonstrates Intel's continued commitment to
supporting the free software community using the best practices
of open source software development.
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html
Now coders need to take that and turn it into a full-featured driver.
> Do you
> think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as
> the
> driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be taken
> away
> from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the
> future?
I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.
Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.
But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with preliminary
hardware acceleration.
> Interesting...
Isn't it?
Nico
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