On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 10:26 +0200, Andreas Baierl wrote: > Am 11.07.2017 um 09:49 schrieb Paul Kocialkowski: > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 08:20 +0200, Andreas Baierl wrote: > > > Am 07.07.2017 um 18:19 schrieb Jonathan Olson: > > > > I see that all the video codecs for the CedarX libraries are > > > > contained in binary libcedar_plugin_venc.so and > > > > libcedar_plugin_vd_others.so. However the CedarX-12.06.2015 > > > > repository only contains 32-bit armv7 libraries. > > > > > > > > Are there any 64-bit armv8 CedarX plugin libraries which could > > > > work > > > > on the new Allwinner H5? > > > > > > > > > > This community including its mailing list does not support any > > > CedarX > > > libraries originating from Allwinner. Please check the wiki, > > > starting > > > here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedar_Engine . Search for "cedrus". > > > This > > > is what the community is working on/with. > > > And no, i don't know of any other closed source library blobs from > > > Allwinner. Allwinner does not care about endusers and software > > > support > > > either. > > > > > > Btw, people asking for and using doubtful blobs provided by > > > Allwinner > > > are one of the reasons, why the open source driver seems to be > > > stalled > > > for such a long time... As long as everybody is satisfied with > > > Allwinner stuff, there simply seems to be no need and motivation > > > to > > > finish that work. > > > > While I agree with you that this attitude goes against creating a > > strong > > incentive for the liberation of the video engine, please keep in > > mind > > that this is a personal decision. It is not very fair to blame > > someone > > because they decided that they need something that works as soon as > > possible, for reasons that you totally ignore and do that not > > concern > > you in any way. Please respect other's decisions that primarily > > affect > > themselves, even though they do have a "drop in the ocean" effect on > > the > > big picture. > > > > The community is indeed not providing support for any of the > > proprietary > > mess that comes out of Allwinner, but it is not a reason to be blame > > those that wish to use that. Frankly, I find this attitude a bit > > disrespectful. > > It is indeed a personal decision primarily. And it was not my > intention > to blame anyone at all. It's everybody's own choice to choose the way > to > go forward. > Btw, as i began to start dealing with Allwinner i also used the blobs > to > get XBMC run. I never cared about GPL and the community (which was in > the beginning, though). I just wanted to have something, that works. > As > soon as possible. But my mind changed during times... > > The reason, why i answer on such postings at all is, because i think, > that there are many people - call them endusers - outside, that do > not > even know about cedrus and about the Allwinner story regarding CedarX > at > all. My only goal is, to draw at least a part of the big picture.
Yes, it is a quite useful thing to do. > Every individual can do what it wants. Questions like the above pop > up > every ~ half year, but i can't remember any question at all, that > states > like "How is the cedrus open source effort going on? Will there ever > be > a kernel driver for the video engine? I'd prefer that instead of > using > Allwinner blobs. But sadly, for my purpose, i have to go with > Allwinner..." > > In summary, i should have better answered: > "No, i don't know of any 64bit libraries, but you can try to use > libvdpau-sunxi. What is your goal at all?" > > I did it the other way, but it was not my intention to blame anyone. Well, I think I was a bit harsh in my answer, too. What I wanted to do is take the occasion to point out is the attitude in general because it felt like you were leaning towards it a bit, but now I see that you obviously didn't go as far as really blaming them. I mostly took the opportunity to express this concern, which I whitness more and more often. Thanks for clarifying things and I'm glad you didn't take my (harsh) answer the wrong way! -- Paul Kocialkowski, developer of free digital technology and hardware support Website: https://www.paulk.fr/ Coding blog: https://code.paulk.fr/ Git repositories: https://git.paulk.fr/ https://git.code.paulk.fr/ -- 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.
