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

[Todd I <to...@ya...>]

The driver version was 1.55.2.  I just looked on the MyHD ftp site,
and they only had as far back as 1.55.3.   Their WWW site download
area had older drivers, but not 1.55.2.  I'm not sure if the older
ones have debug symbols.

There is some discussion on the sourceforge mailing list.
There is also a brief discussion of the driver symbols on a Yahoo
group that was used while the sourceforge account was being set up: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_hdtv_pci


--- George Morgan <geo...@sp...> wrote:

> 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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