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?) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
