Re: ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI development

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Samuel Cantrell
<samuelcantrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>

Can't hurt to try, but I'm not sure how much luck you'll have.

Alex


> 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
>>
>
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