Hi, I've been away from DaVinci development for a while (almost two years, time flies!) and I need a little catch-up on current status. I have two questions about DM355:
-Licensing prices. TI site isn't much clear about this; apparently it's enough to buy the DVEVM (495$) and register it for free in order to gain access to the production MPEG4 CODEC. Is it really so or is there some catch (for example the CODECs cannot be interfaced with open source code and/or used without CCS, and therefore there are hidden prices to pay)? -Open source Linux status. When I left the development on the DM6446 DVEVM, the status between open source Linux Vs. Montavista Linux was somewhat difficult to evaluate. The MV version had some improvements and additional features, but it was based on a older kernel version and still lacked several fundamental features for production products (e.g. low power modes support, SPI driver, boot from MMC/SD, VPFE/VPBE complete support, decent performances for MMC, etc). This isn't a complaint, obviously the usual Linux philosophy still applies (if you need it, write it yourself), but it's important to know what you really have and what you still need to do in order to get an actual commercial product. Basically the questions can be collapsed into a simpler one: what do I get by just spending the 495$ for the DVEVM? Do I get enough software code/tools to develop an actual product, or other commercial tools are practlcally required? Thank you! -- Lorenzo _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
