Difference between revisions of "LinuxLibre:VIDEO TM6000 DVB"

From LibrePlanet
Jump to: navigation, search
(What is the purpose of the device?)
(Links to online documentation)
 
Line 22: Line 22:
 
(i.e. datasheets, developer's guides, official or non-official
 
(i.e. datasheets, developer's guides, official or non-official
 
specifications, etc)
 
specifications, etc)
...
+
 
 +
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Trident_TM6000
  
 
=Where are the non-free firmware images made available?=
 
=Where are the non-free firmware images made available?=

Latest revision as of 00:00, 9 September 2010

Reference at LinuxLibre log

VIDEO_TM6000_DVB - DVB Support for tm6000 based TV cards
drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-cards.c: removed blobs

What is the purpose of the device?

Digital & Analog TV receiver - USB device

Who needs it?

users who want to watch tv and have bought this specific device

How critical it is to get free support for it?

(Is it a very popular device that requires us to prioritize efforts?) Not really.

What is(are) the processor architecture(s) of this device?

No idea.

Who is working on a free firmware implementation?

Nobody.

Links to online documentation

(i.e. datasheets, developer's guides, official or non-official specifications, etc)

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Trident_TM6000

Where are the non-free firmware images made available?

TODO

What makes them non-free?

Source code is not available.

What else do we know about this device?

(any further info that might help the creation of free firmware for it)

  • A kernel developer called Dmitri Belimov has access to the datasheets under NDA.
  • The device is still not working even with the non-free firmware.
  • Mauro Chehab, Dmitri Belimov, Luis Henrique Fagundes and Felipe Sanches are working on the free driver.