On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Samuel Cantrell <samuelcantr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps we could contact Broadcom regarding the Theatre 312? > > Am I making too much of this? I do have a Pinnacle 800i which works > with Linux, I was just also wanting to get this card to work. Should I > just drop it? >
Can't hurt to try, but I'm not sure how much luck you'll have. Alex > Thanks. > > Sam > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Devin Heitmueller >> <dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Who did you contact? gpudriverdevsupport AT amd DOT com is the devel >>>> address you probably want. I looked into documentation for the newer >>>> theatre chips when I started at AMD, but unfortunately, I'm not sure >>>> how much we can release since we sold most of our multimedia IP to >>>> Marvell last year. I'm not sure what the status of the theatre chips >>>> is now. >>>> >>>> Documentation for the older theatre and theatre 200 asics was released >>>> under NDA years ago which resulted in the theatre support in the >>>> opensource radeon Xorg driver and gatos projects. Now that we a >>>> proper KMS driver for radeon, someone could port the old userspace >>>> theatre code to the kernel for proper v4l support on AIW radeon cards. >>>> >>>> Alex >>> >>> For what it's worth, I actually did have a contact at the ATI/AMD >>> division that made the Theatre 312/314/316, and I was able to get >>> access to both the docs and reference driver sources under NDA. >>> However, the division in question was sold off to Broadcom, and I >>> couldn't get the rights needed to do a GPL driver nor to get >>> redistribution rights on the firmware. In fact, they couldn't even >>> told me who actually *held* the rights for the reference driver code. >>> >>> At that point, I decided that it just wasn't worth the effort for such >>> an obscure design. >> >> Ah right, I meant Broadcom, not Marvell. >> >> Alex >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
