Hi, On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:46:07 -0300 Rodrigo Pereira <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is because reverse engeneering is a PITA, I suppose. > > http://linux-sunxi.org/CedarX/Reverse_Engineering >
I disagree. Reverse engineering is an enjoyable and fun thing to do. And as can be see in the above url, it only took a space of a few weeks to get successful results, with the majority of the work done by only one person. What is PITA, is to be ignored. After all this work done, we(the people that work by reverse engineering this video engine, so that would be possible to write a proper driver that can be mainlined). What we get? Just indifference that the reverse engineering effort even exists. Look at this maillist, people here begging allwinner for a binary with a correct license (because without a license without issues, nobody that wants to stay lawful can even use the binary). And for what?, this binary will not magical resolve all the things, this binary is a stopper for a proper driver, this binary can't be part of mainline kernel. Don't forget what happened around two years ago, when the developers of an unnamed favorite media player tried to add hardware acceleration. What we get? Endless users asking why it doesn't work, but incapable in recognizing the work that must be done before. In the end, the users expect all from us, but is not enough. You know, if we(the reverse engineering people) had a bit more support, we would be motivated to work a bit harder, so that maybe today we all would be much happier. And this page would have progressed much more. http://linux-sunxi.org/VE_Planning -- Manuel Braga -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
