btw: are any tv cards on the planet which solaris "can" support, which
has the required documentation?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Andras Barna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ok, thanks for the info
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:52 AM, James C. McPherson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Andras Barna wrote:
>>>
>>> Any chance for a saa7134[0] driver in the (near) future?
>>>
>>> [0] http://www.nxp.com/pip/SAA7134HL_4.html
>>
>> Not really, unless you want to port one from another Open
>> OS. The chip itself doesn't have a PRM published that tells
>> you about the native functions it supports. The V4L2 specs
>> and documentation all talk about using i2c drivers to kick
>> the capture card into doing the right thing. Not quite sure
>> how efficient that really is.
>>
>> On the i2c front, the major issue for us is that the drivers
>> are mostly in the sparc-specific side of $SRC/uts, and would
>> need porting. I don't believe that this would be _too_ much
>> of a problem, however (having looked into it a while back).
>>
>>
>> James C. McPherson
>> --
>> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
>> Sun Microsystems
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andy
> http://blog.sartek.net
>



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Andy
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