[Openchrome-users] Via just released a framebuffer driver

Claas Langbehn claas at rootdir.de
Tue Mar 27 09:29:57 CEST 2007


Hello friends,

I just saw at 
http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=77110 that 
VIA released a frambuffer driver. It compiles and works with 2.6.21-rc4 
an it's faster than vesafb on console. See the included readme.txt for 
more information. Unfortunately there is a binary-only lib included 
(/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/via/VIA-VMILIB/libddmpeg.so).

Isn't it possible to kick via's ass for this and force them to release 
the sourcecode of it, too? Maybe they are breaking
someones license with this lib?

regards,
claas



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