> Terry Hancock wrote:
> > I'm working on a "liberated alternative to blu-ray"
> 
> ..
> 
> > create inexpensive hardware players for Lib-Ray.
> 
> ..
> 
> > "Raspberry Pi"
> 
> Please note that the rpi hardware is pretty much as closed as is
> possible for an embedded board that runs Linux.

Quite so.  Another reason why it might be kind of cool if there were an 
alternative.

> Since you need high performance graphics there may not be an existing
> solution. You would only have access to really open hardware once the
> power-efficient GPU that open-graphics will design has been
> productized.

Well, "open hardware" can mean more than one thing (more than one level). It 
could just mean an open PCB for an existing chipset. Not as exciting as a 
fully-open processor, but it'd be something.

I understand however that Google did release a core for a VP8 hardware decoder 
-- presumably that could be part of an open GPU in the future.

Cheers,
Terry
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