On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Who did you contact? gpudriverdevsupport AT amd DOT com is the devel > address you probably want. I looked into documentation for the newer > theatre chips when I started at AMD, but unfortunately, I'm not sure > how much we can release since we sold most of our multimedia IP to > Marvell last year. I'm not sure what the status of the theatre chips > is now. > > Documentation for the older theatre and theatre 200 asics was released > under NDA years ago which resulted in the theatre support in the > opensource radeon Xorg driver and gatos projects. Now that we a > proper KMS driver for radeon, someone could port the old userspace > theatre code to the kernel for proper v4l support on AIW radeon cards. > > Alex For what it's worth, I actually did have a contact at the ATI/AMD division that made the Theatre 312/314/316, and I was able to get access to both the docs and reference driver sources under NDA. However, the division in question was sold off to Broadcom, and I couldn't get the rights needed to do a GPL driver nor to get redistribution rights on the firmware. In fact, they couldn't even told me who actually *held* the rights for the reference driver code. At that point, I decided that it just wasn't worth the effort for such an obscure design. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
