This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>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 :-).

I revoke that statement then!  (Maybe that's why it boots itself twice?)
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