On September 2, 2014 2:28:23 AM EDT, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 07:58:52PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: >> A Merlin firmware of 16 kB strongly suggests that this chip has an >> integarted Conexant CX25843 (Merlin Audio + Thresher Video = Mako) >> Broadtcast A/V decoder core. The chip might only have a Merlin >> integrated, but so far I've never encountered that. It will be easy >> enough to tell, if the Thresher registers don't respond or only >respond >> with junk. > >However I strongly suspect that these drivers are for a whole *family* >of empia device. The oem ini by roxio talks about three different >parts... probably they give one sys file for everyone and the oem >customizes the ini. > >In short the merlin fw may not be actually used for *this* part but >only >for other empia devices/configurations. > >Otherwise I wonder *why* a fscking 1.5MB of sys driver for a mostly >dumb >capture device... Yeah. I guess you can analyze the USB captures of the Windows driver and see if it looks like cx25843 registers are being accessed. If so, you are that much closer to a working linux driver. If not, you still have an unknown decoder as a big hurdle. Regards, Andy -- 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
