On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:19:47 +1000 Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It runs embedded Linux on a StrongARM, but I suspect all the decoding is > done in hardware on an MPEG decoder and one of those FPGA dudes programmed > to do the OGG decoding. All FPGAs manufactured by Xilinx (about 70% of the market) and most of the other FPGAs as well store their programs in SRAM and hence have to be reprogrammed every time the device is power cycled. > The upshot is that the firmware upgrades can only > improve the interface, but not the codec support, I think. Hence that statement is probably wrong :-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C pointers who can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code than people with five years of experience in Java." -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
