Re: Looking for full datasheet of bcm7020 chip

[email protected] (mikespub) Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:48:40 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.curiosa
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In article <[email protected]>, Marcel van der Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
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>mikespub wrote:
>> Hehe - isn't it supposed to support PAL straight away though ? Or is
>> Australian PAL somehow different from the European one ?
>>
>Nah, its the same. The machines which carry this chip have a 
>proprietary driver, which sets the chip to NTSC, which is somewhat Ok 
>for output, cos most TVs nowadays can handle it. But for input, that 
>kinda sucks.  So, in essence what we need is (foremost) a piece of 
>documentation that switches that chip into PAL mode. We probably need 
>a whole lot more than that, but it would be a good start already.
>
>So, a patch to be run over the binary driver would also be good ;-)
>
>marcel

/me listens to the sound of silence...

Good luck :-)

Mike.