> 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. > this is funny I'm aware that several developers have the zl10353 and mt352 specs. I have had it for around 2 years now (if not longer). I think I even saw the intel specs online a longer time ago, I just wondered that I found some previously undocumented registers in it, this was a couple of months ago. Markus
