Comment 129 for bug 43154

> It doesn't look like Valentine Sinitsyn and Luc Verhaegen
Just to make it clear: I'm only the original bug reporter, not Unichrome-DRI/Unichrome/OpenChrome developer.

> have really had a look at the sources (yet).
> From what I can tell everything except the libddmpeg.so
> is provided as source code in the package,
> contrary to what they are saying.
In fact, I've already skimmed through the code VIA released on Dec, 13th. DRI part looks pretty much like the thing you can find in current Mesa tree (although I haven't done any thorough comparison and if there is a one-liner, I would definitely miss it). The archive is 14 Mb and most of it is precompiled .so libraries for different distros (outdated ones, unfortunately). I was not able to figure out whether they are just compiled sources or contain some proprietary code. It would be really nice if they don't but the release notes are somewhat misleading:

   This software package supports 2D, 3D, TV-Out, hardware video mpeg2/4 and
   hardware video overlay. Aiglx function can be supported on Fedora Core Linux
   6/7, ubuntu Desktop 7.04.Other distributions only support 2D, TV-Out,
   hardware video mpeg2/4 and hardware video overlay.

Distros in the list are among those you can find precompiled .so for.
Anyway, if the code works, it would be really nice. Unfortunately, I'll hardly have an opportunity to test it in the coming days, but if you have some news on the subject (link missed from the previous post would be helpful, too), please let me/us know.