I have an upcomming project thats going to require the addition of
NTSC video overlays to a display system with 2 Assiliant (C&T) 69000s
running in multi-head.

We have an existing product that does this with a saa7111a connected
directly to a 69000.  It runs a DOS program where the control of the
saa7111a is done from the 69000 via I2C.

Since we have a somewhat proven design we would like to just splat
these circuits onto our other 69000 system.  However, it's not yet
obvious to me how to control the 7111a from the 69000s under X.  I've
been going over the I2C code and so far it looks like its
specifically for getting DDC info.

In fact there is a statement in the 69000 drivers comments suggests
that the only thing expected to be on the 69000's I2C bus is DDC
info.

Is this the whole story?  If so would we be better off attaching the
saa7111s to the SMBus and using the kernel I2C stuff?

And then on the 69000 side what would be the prefered method to talk
to the internal registers on the 69000 for when I want to set up the
overlays?  Can XVideo control stuff like this?  My google searches so
far haven't really yeilded any usefull info.
 

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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.               
[EMAIL PROTECTED]               501.846.5777 x204                        
Sr. Design Engineer        http://www.bitworks.com   


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