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Robin Cornelius wrote:
> An important point that applies to a lot of devices is that many
> hardware OEMs know almost nothing about the core of their device,
> they have purchased a chip from another manufacture and often just
> stuck it on a board with a couple of other chips, often the chipset
> manufacture even supplies the basic windows driver and they just
> brand it. Its the chipset manufactures that have the data you need
> (data sheets etc) and these can sometimes be persuaded to give data
> sheets (and some are even publicly available). I have directly
> experienced *huge* success in this area with wireless network
> drivers where the chipset manufacture has directly supported linux
> bypassing the OEM's.
Fair enough. I'm curious now about the 'Bendino' chip in my
Pinnacle. I've searched again for any scraps of info on it in Google,
with no result. My lspci -vv for the device (which I sent to the
developer originally as well) is:
0000:01:09.0 Multimedia controller: Pinnacle Systems Inc.: Unknown
device bede
Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc.: Unknown device 0024
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Step
ping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort
+ <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 4000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08
(32 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at e6010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
Does that tell us anything useful, other than the developer being able
to look at it and say it's not the same as a standard Pinnacle card?
Kind regards,
Julian
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