On 06/23/2012 02:03 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:32:39 +0100
> "Armin K." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hm ... I didn't pay attention to that. Yeah, they do require catalyst at
>> runtime (or is it build time?), but it is open source program,
>
> Where is the source code?
>

http://www.splitted-desktop.com/static/libva/xvba-video/xvba-video-0.8.0.tar.gz

There is it. I've checked it now. It needs libXvBA which is part of 
Catalyst. But still that one is open-source.

>> so I
>> can't really figure out if that is apropriate for BLFS. I think same
>> thing is for VDPAU driver, it needs nvidia_vdpau that is in NVidia
>> binary driver. I didn't catch anywhere anything about using open source
>> software that has something to do with closed source one in external
>> links. I think it is worth mentioning tough. Or not?
>
> I don't think we should be pushing the closed source AMD and Nvidia
> drivers
>

Fair enough. But I don't think that this could harm someone. We just 
make a reference, and it is not even part of the book.


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