Re: [MyHD-develop] TL880 owned by Zoran?

[George M. <geo...@sp...>]

Any idea which driver version he started with (or is this listed in the mailing
list archives somewhere and I should just search?)  This is actually exactly
what I was planning to do if Zoran still won't provide any support.  I've
already sent email to their support department.

I've also contacted MIT hoping that they would be interested in having linux
support for their card.

I've started scouring the web for block diagrams, etc of the card to at least
get an idea of what kind of architecture we're dealing with.  I assume the
TL880 is the only PCI interface to the card, but being that I don't have any
hardware in hand and have not found any useful diagrams yet, this is just a
guess.

George Morgan


Quoting Todd I <to...@ya...>:

> Teralogic was originally bought by Oak Technologies.  Then, Oak was
> bought by Zoran.
>
> Several people have contacted each of these companies while they
> owned the technology, but noone ever got a useful response.  (Way
> back when they first made the Janus design, a rep from Teralogic sent
> some messages to mailing lists looking for people interested in
> working on Linux support.  But, by the time the cards started getting
> popular, Teralogic had changed their tune and refusing or ignoring
> any Linux inquiries.)
>
>
> Since the companies were not cooperating, a developer by the name of
> Mike Bourgeous began reverse engineering the Windows driver.  He used
> an older version that had been distributed with debug symbols, and
> without any EULA.    He made good progress on getting the chip
> initialized, and figuring out the i2c communications.   But, he had
> to leave on a two year commitment for his church, without any access
> to e-mail/computers/etc.     When he left, things quickly ground to a
> halt.   That was about a year ago, and he will not return for another
> year.
>
> --- George Morgan <geo...@sp...> wrote:
>
> > From the looks of this web page (below) the TL880 is owned by
> > Zoran...  Is this
> > new or have they always owned it?
> >
> > http://www.zoran.com/products/dtv/ic/tl880.html
> >
> > George Morgan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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