On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > One of the biggest group of devices that I feel are not overly well > supported (more from a community easily available driver set) are some > of the embedded style devices used for audio and video. > > There seems to be a lot of TV Set Top Box style devices that either > run linux or can run Linux. Sigma Designs released codes around 2003 > for the devices then but there doesn't seem to be any since for their > newer devices or for even the 2.6 kernel. There's dozens of devices > that are based around these sort of devices based on Sigma, Broadcom > or some other embedded media processor that would be cool if they were > supported driver and kernel wise better than current. One example is > the Sarotech Abigs DVP570HD > (http://www.sarotech.com/english/product/dvp-570.html), the firmware > runs on some ancient version of Linux, would be cool to be able to run > a decent 2.6.x on it with newer interfaces like elisa. Are there drivers for this hardware anywhere for older kernel versions that we should just forward port? Or would this be a "from scratch" implementation? thanks, greg k-h
