On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ah right, I meant Broadcom, not Marvell. Alex -- 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
