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____/ JeffM on Thursday 07 Jan 2010 22:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>|Broadcom announced that it has ported Android
>>|[...]to a ARM-based CPU
>>
> Broadcom?? Go on, pull the other one.
> <Checks date on calendar> Nope, it's not April 1st.
> Could it be that the idiots aren't in charge there any more?
Yes, it's weird, but they did change quite a while back.
- From last month:
Broadcom Offers Royalty-Free, Open Source BroadVoice(R) Wideband and Narrowband
Voice Codecs to Enhance the Quality of Voice Transmissions
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| As a direct response to customer demand for
| advanced, high-quality voice solutions and
| development tools, Broadcom is releasing its
| wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in
| both floating-point and fixed-point C code as
| open source software under the GNU Lesser
| General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1,
| as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/200911100800PR_NEWS_USPR_____LA07991.htm
Linux drivers for Broadcom HD Video Accelerator
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| The Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder is a
| card that you can slip into a netbook to
| enable HD video playback on computer with an
| Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics.
| Broadcom has supported Windows since day one,
| and the Broadcom BCM70012 and BCM70015 cards
| play well with Windows media Player 12, Adobe
| Flash Player 10.1 beta, ArcSoft TotalMedia
| Theatre and CyberLink PowerDVD. Linux, on the
| other hand, has been a different storyâ up
| until now.
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http://www.liliputing.com/2009/12/linux-drivers-for-broadcom-hd-video-accelerator.html
And then some more:
Broadcom Switches to the Light Side: The Start of a New Era?
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| Although Broadcom had very good in-house Linux drivers for its wireless
| cards, which it sold to manufacturers of wireless routers that ran on Linux,
| it refused to release the drivers to the community, even in binary-only form,
| or to provide documentation that would assist Linux users in writing their
| own drivers. Consequently, ndiswrapper was for many years the only way to
| get Broadcom cards running on Ubuntu and other distributions.
|
| [...]
|
| Many individuals, especially die-hard disciples of Richard Stallman, will
| argue that Broadcom still has a ways to go if it wants to prove that itâs
| serious about Linux support. The source of its drivers remains essentially
| closed, with their future status unclear. As the Ubuntu developer
| writes, âItâs hard to go on a companyâs word that they will open a driver up
| and play nice, especially Broadcom.â
|
| All the same, these drivers are a concrete example of the legitimacy that
| Ubuntu has gained, thanks in large part to the leverage that Canonical
| enjoys. This isnât to say that 2009 will become the elusive Year of the
| Linux Desktop, but itâs certainly a step in the right direction.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/10/02/broadcom-switches-to-the-light-side-the-start-of-a-new-era/
Broadcom aims advanced comm chips at Linux handsets
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| Jim Tran, GM of mobile communications at Broadcom, added, "Broadcom has a
| long history of working closely within the Linux community on advanced
| communications products."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5018305716.html
Broadcom Joins the LiMo Foundation as a Leading Semiconductor Provider for
Mobile Linux(R) Solutions
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| Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and
| wireless communications, today announced that it has joined the LiMo
| Foundation as one of its first semiconductor suppliers.
`----
http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?tick=VOD&newsid=6113695
65nm "STB-on-a-chip" runs Linux
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| Broadcom is sampling a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) for cable,
| satellite, and IP set-top boxes (STBs). Built on outsourced 65nm process
| technology, the BCM7405 "STB-on-a-chip" is based on a 400MHz MIPS32/16e
| processor core, runs Linux, and supports numerous video compression standards
| as well as networked personal video recorder (PVR) functionality.
`----
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2059877832.html
Broadcom to Bring ARM Cortex-A8 to Powerful Videocore Mobile Multimedia
Product Line
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| In addition to its robust processing power, the Cortex-A8 processor is
| fully supported by the ARM RealView(R) Development Suite enabling OEMs
| to deliver rich content to Linux-based devices that fully exploit
| the high-performance Cortex-A8 processor with significantly reduced
| memory footprint. The ability to seamlessly build Linux application
| libraries with the compilation tools in the RealView Development
| Suite enables developers to maximize the performance of key elements
| of their code base, ultimately providing end customers with highly
| responsive Linux devices that have an exceptionally long battery life.
`----
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=198693
Broadcom Demonstrates Linux OS Support on Its CellAirity Platform for Low
Cost Smartphone Handsets
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| Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired
| and wireless communications, today announced that it will
| demonstrate the flexibility of its cellular platform with a
| new reference design that can run powerful applications on the Linux
| operating system.
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http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2007-02/artikel-7748243.asp
Broadcom samples one-chip HSDPA smartphone silicon
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| At 3GSM this week, Broadcom unveiled a smartphone SoC (system-on-chip)
| that integrates an HSPDA baseband modem with application, audio,
| and multimedia processors on a single monolithic chip.
`----
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3387753378.html
Broadcom Offers Linux BSP for Wi-Fi Phone Chipset
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| Broadcom has said that the Broadcom Wi-Fi phone chipset has been
| selected by Samsung for its new line of consumer and small business
| Wi-Fi phones.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Mobile/Broadcom_Offers_Linux_BSP_for_WiFi_Phone_Chipset
Broadcom app processor targets Linux phones
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| The company offers a variety of Linux-based software and middleware for
| the chip... The BCM2820 is now sampling to early access customers, along
| with a development kit that includes a Linux BSP, a suite of multimedia
| codecs, and application software.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7357900819.html
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