About hardware accelerarion: What exactly do you mean by it? I think games (for example) are already accelerated on ICS, so maybe you mean "hardware decoding"?

Also if you do so, do you mean the same that can be found in stock (.MP4, Netflix), which is limited at best or do you mean the whole pack (most popular filetypes), like -say- some Chinese tablets already have (for that we'd need codecs of course)?

Hardware acceleration in the context we're using it is the way that video information can be quickly moved around for high performance situations such as video playback. Google Chrome for Android also uses this for its general rendering. Lack of this hardware assistance breaks video players such as Netflix and Flash which depend on it to get performance.

It really has nothing to do with codecs, otherwise they would be calling it hardware decoding. You'd like to think a forum full of kernel geeks would know the right terms to use.

I've hit the thanks button, but I just want to express my thanks further. I'm infinitely impressed at your diligence, Hashcode. With the progress as slow as it is a lesser man would have quit long ago. Mad props to you, brother.

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Hashcode, when you get to the point where you need testing (if you decide you need testing on multiple kindles aside from what you have already) i'm perfectly willing to lend mine to the cause.

Originally Posted by southbird

You'd like to think a forum full of kernel geeks would know the right terms to use.

Ha, except a solid half of the posters in this particular dev forum barely have enough brain cells to maintain respiration.

There should be a test for posting privileges in dev forums (general and Q/A, whatever). Only the geeks should be allowed here, and everything else goes to the other areas.

Related: This is awesome. I'll have to laugh if it takes something ridiculous like 30 sec of tweaking to get HWA working once the screen gets going properly.

Also: I wonder how much control we'll have over the LED color once that driver is up and running properly. It does green and orange already, so that means there's at least green and red LEDs. If there's a (unused) blue one in there too, and we can access it, that would be entirely awesome.

Dear
Alex Newton Fleming Einstein DeGruven
If you are so smart where's your 3.0 kernel?.

Originally Posted by lovejoy777

Dear
Alex Newton Fleming Einstein DeGruven
If you are so smart where's your 3.0 kernel?.

Cut it out and stop flaming.

I was noticing as I browsed the kernel init on the blog, and where hash said the boonanim went to hell, it mentions the emif0. Im wondering if it has something to do with it. The only place this item successfully does anything prior to bootanim is irq assignment, it failed the mpu load. I dont know if this is relevant, just trying to help

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Very good progress hashcode bhai

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Originally Posted by southbird

Hardware acceleration in the context we're using it is the way that video information can be quickly moved around for high performance situations such as video playback. Google Chrome for Android also uses this for its general rendering. Lack of this hardware assistance breaks video players such as Netflix and Flash which depend on it to get performance.

It really has nothing to do with codecs, otherwise they would be calling it hardware decoding. You'd like to think a forum full of kernel geeks would know the right terms to use.

OK then, sorry if I have offended some souls, so let me rephrase:

"Are we going to get proper hardware decoding too?"
Because as it stands the only filetype that is accelerated on KF (in general) is .MP4, which is a rather frustrating situation; for a tablet -at least- it is, if it was a phone I wouldn't mind.