Perhaps we could contact Broadcom regarding the Theatre 312? Am I making too much of this? I do have a Pinnacle 800i which works with Linux, I was just also wanting to get this card to work. Should I just drop it? Thanks. Sam On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
