I wouldn't be holding my breath either - I was developing some hardware last year and Conexant were quite insistent I should spend €€ € with one of their development partners to get datasheets (I think it was about £12 GBP!!!). So I used someone else's IC's.
Hope you get them though. Nick On 11 Feb 2007, at 20:04, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:42, Sander Sweers wrote: >> Alex Izvorski wrote: >>> I am wondering what it would take to get support for the CX23418 >>> chip? >> >> Hans (The main developer atm), estimated it would take at least 6 >> months for it to be done. But this was by himself probably and any >> help you or other people can give will speed this up. Code wise I >> have no clue. >> >>> Is anybody already working on it? How much work is it? Are people >>> at least interested? >> >> Nobody as none have the datasheet. Without it it will be very >> difficult and will take a long time. >> >>> I am trying to obtain a datasheet, I'll keep you all posted ;) >> >> Hans is/was trying the same :-) >> >>> It seems like cards based on this (HVR-1600 etc) mey be gradually >>> replacing the CX23416-based cards, at least in the Hauppauge >>> product line, so this is going to become kind of important. >> >> Hans, CCing you to be sure you read this ;-) You may have a partner >> in getting the CX23418 supported. > > Alex, > > It would be great if you can get the datasheet (legally). Through > other > contacts I'm also trying to obtain it. Basically it is a case of > hoping > Conexant will see the light and be willing to release the datasheet > (possibly under an NDA) for the purposes of writing a GPL driver. > To be > completely honest, I'm not holding my breath. > > We'll see. > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
