On 01/11/2007, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello friends, > > Please excuse me for sounding like a newbie. > > I have not obtained enough info about these technologies on the web. Any > pointers are much appreciated. > > I want to know what needs to be done to make OpenBSD boot from a DOM > module. > > Does DOM emulate a hard disk? Are any special drivers required?
Wikipedia claims that it indeed emulates an IDE drive and thus doesn't require special drivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_on_module > My second question is totally unrelated. > > Are any special drivers required for supporting a HDMI high definition > audio/video output? > > I am guessing that the audio part alone will need some sort of driving. > > What about video? > > Or is it all done in hardware/firmware? > > Many thanks. > > regards, > Girish AFAIK, HDMI is DRM infested CRAP (pun intended) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-156220.html (warning: aBLOBe Flush) http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2582 IANAL, but if you're in the US, the DMCA might even make fixing HDMI illegal. (Ok, that last one is me talking out my arse, I don't really want to start a rumour, it's just that I fear it might be so.) What's worse, it appears that CRAP/DRM is HDMI's entire raison-d'etre: http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/mp3/drm.mp3 (warning: unfree codec)
