where does viafb go?

Hi,

recently viafb was added to linux 2.6.28. While it allows to use VIA's
graphic cards directly via framebuffer, it does not support all hardware
features (e.g. the mpeg-2 decoder or mpeg-4 accelerator). As far as I
know VIA will not publish any code about this, because of possibly
License problems [1]. On the other hand, there is a X driver [2], which
does support at least part of these features (mpeg-2 decoder) and VIA is
working together with this project.

My question is: does anyone here now about future development of the
viafb driver to support these features?

Thanks for any info in advance.
Marc


[1]
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/09/01#20080901-via-xorg-opensource-faq
[2] http://www.openchrome.org/


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