Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008

[stuart]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> One of the biggest group of devices that I feel are not overly well
> supported (more from a community easily available driver set) are some
> of the embedded style devices used for audio and video.
> 
> There seems to be a lot of TV Set Top Box style devices that either
> run linux or can run Linux. Sigma Designs released codes around 2003
> for the devices then but there doesn't seem to be any since for their
> newer devices or for even the 2.6 kernel. There's dozens of devices
> that are based around these sort of devices based on Sigma, Broadcom
> or some other embedded media processor that would be cool if they were
> supported driver and kernel wise better than current. One example is
> the Sarotech Abigs DVP570HD
> (http://www.sarotech.com/english/product/dvp-570.html), the firmware
> runs on some ancient version of Linux, would be cool to be able to run
> a decent 2.6.x on it with newer interfaces like elisa.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
>>  Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008
>>  Greg KH greg at kroah.com
>>  Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008
> _______________________________________________

That's because it's difficult to work w/syabas / sigmadesign.  But, if 
you are curious - the best efforts I know of are being discussed at at a 
place called  http://networkmediatank.com/.