On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 20:04 +0200, Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I've got a system here which consists of Intel 830CGC and a focus fs454 >> chip to produce TV-output. Is there any way of making this work on a >> relatively current linux? I'm asking this as I could not make >> successful use of the IEGD-suites available from Intel a.t.m. >> >> How could the fs454 be made usable with the 2.4.2 version? (I've seen >> some sub-modules for other chips that seem to have the same purpose) >> >> Is support planned? >> >> Would Intel help? > > No, we're no longer adding additional support for old DVO encoders. > Most of them have freely available specifications such that anyone with > time and interest could write a driver for them. I saw fs454 register > specs with some cursory googling. If that's not enough, mmiotrace and > friends can help trace what the BIOS does to program your hardware so > you can write a better native driver. > > -- > Eric Anholt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >
To the best of my knowledge mmio-trace only works on existing (binary) kernel modules. Tracing the bios is another matter altogether. Maarten. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
