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. > > Regards, > Peter > >> Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 >> Greg KH greg at kroah.com >> Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008 > _______________________________________________ That's because it's difficult to work w/syabas / sigmadesign. But, if you are curious - the best efforts I know of are being discussed at at a place called http://networkmediatank.com/.