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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:27:18 -0700
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:43:32AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm currently lacking the time to work on they by myself, since I'm currently
> > > evolved on fixing em28xx, and finishing tm6000 driver, but I can help someone
> > > interested on working on the drivers to give them the proper directions.
> > 
> > 
> > Yuck ! you mean to say , to write drivers similarly to your tm6000 hack.c?
> > 
> > (LOL, Just happened to have a loud fart !)
> > 
> > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mchehab/tm6000/file/499c88f177c1/linux/drivers/media/video/tm6000/hack.c
> 
> Heh, that's too funny!  And here I thought only I wrote code for USB
> devices like that :)

Yes, it is funny ;)

Just a side note: 

As marked on the changeset that introduced this hack [1], this code and the
rest of the DVB code were written by Michael Ludwig. I didn't have time yet to
look at the DVB part of the driver. I've just received this week my first
tm6000-based device with DVB.

The big issue here is that he couldn't get the proper documentation for Zarlink
10353. It seems that tm6000 needs to program different parameters than the
other DVB bridges. Also, tm6000 doesn't seem to be reliable enough to allow
reading something from I2C.

The proper solution here is to remove this hack, and add support at the
existing mt352 driver. However, for doing this, we need more information.

That part of Zarlink were bought by Intel. I've already tried to get Intel, in
order to their datasheets without success.

We are also lacking contact on Trident, to get their datasheets. So, the driver
are being written based on the listened traffic at USB bus, generated by a M$
driver.

Maybe someone at the list may help us to get those datasheets.

[1] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~mchehab/tm6000/file/38bbabd33194/linux/drivers/media/video/tm6000/hack.c

Cheers,
Mauro


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