2011/11/18 Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi>:
> 2011/11/18 Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca>:
>> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 21:57 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Pardon my ignorance, I guess the ztv driver is an additional driver that
>> provides TV analog output.
>> Some description in the README would be nice. Extensive googling did not
>> produce anything.
>
> It's actually a video capture input driver, IIRC. I've added a line
> about this in README.

Further searching tells that it's officially called a Video Input
Port. Most of the documentation I found suggests that it's built into
the CPU, but some other suggest that it's handled by the companion
chip, which would mean that a GX2 could make use of it too.

FYI, at least one OEM published some sample sources for using the VIP:

http://w.compulab.co.il/workspace/mediawiki/index.php5/CM-iGLX:_Linux:_Video_Input_Port

-- 
Martin-Éric
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