On 01/11/2007, Girish Venkatachalam  wrote:

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> Hello friends,

>

> Please excuse me for sounding like a newbie.

>

> I have not obtained enough info about these technologies on the web. Any

> pointers are much appreciated.

>

> I want to know what needs to be done to make OpenBSD boot from a DOM

> module.

>

> Does DOM emulate a hard disk? Are any special drivers required?

Wikipedia claims that it indeed emulates an IDE drive and thus doesn't

require special drivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_on_module
> My second question is totally unrelated.

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>

> Are any special drivers required for supporting a HDMI high definition

> audio/video output?

>

> I am guessing that the audio part alone will need some sort of driving.

>

> What about video?

>

> Or is it all done in hardware/firmware?

>

> Many thanks.

>

> regards,

> Girish

AFAIK, HDMI is DRM infested CRAP (pun intended)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-156220.html (warning: aBLOBe Flush)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2582
IANAL, but if you're in the US, the DMCA might even make fixing HDMI

illegal. (Ok, that last one is me talking out my arse, I don't really

want to start a rumour, it's just that I fear it might be so.)
What's worse, it appears that CRAP/DRM is HDMI's entire raison-d'etre:

http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/mp3/drm.mp3 (warning: unfree codec)