Is Arm ready for server dominance?

Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by ac29 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:35PM (#21718550)

Amlogic and Allwinner SoCs have varying degrees up media decode support in mainline kernels (h264 is supported, other codecs vary). Armbian supports a bunch of such boards with Linux 5.3. What exactly are you trying to do?

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by markvdb on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:58AM (#21719984)

We're building libre streaming hardware for https://fosdem.org .

Our current approach is using the Allwinner A20 processor. Investing quite a bit of work in a free driver for the h264 encoding block on there (cedrus vpu).

It was an honest question if we had overlooked something obvious...

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by ac29 on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:07PM (#21726936)

Yeah, the Cedrus VPU is already supported upstream: https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

That page is a bit out of date, I think the support has improved since then.

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