LinuxLibre:VIDEO TM6000 DVB
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Contents
- 1 Reference at LinuxLibre log
- 2 What is the purpose of the device?
- 3 Who needs it?
- 4 How critical it is to get free support for it?
- 5 What is(are) the processor architecture(s) of this device?
- 6 Who is working on a free firmware implementation?
- 7 Links to online documentation
- 8 Where are the non-free firmware images made available?
- 9 What makes them non-free?
- 10 What else do we know about this device?
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.
