Re: strange empia device

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Am 02.09.2014 um 08:28 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio:
> 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...
Right. There is also no firmware upload in the USB-log I have checked.

Regards,
Frank
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