PentaMedia PentaValue Card 15c8:0133 (HDM8513)

[Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer (at) gmx.net>]

Martin Nicholas wrote:

> I have a Pent (at) Value (PentaValue) data-only satellite card
> There are open-source Linux drivers for 2.4 kernels available at:
> http://www.pentamedia.com/
>  
The driver contains binary only object files (hw*.o), so it is not 
open-source.

/pentaval-2.1.0/drv # l
total 197
drwxr-xr-x 4 500 500 816 Apr 2 12:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 500 500 392 Apr 2 12:56 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 25 Sep 19 2001 confscripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 8508 Sep 19 2001 hwdmx.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 8608 Sep 19 2001 hwfpga.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1236 Sep 19 2001 hwmac.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 11060 Sep 19 2001 hwpacket.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1132 Sep 19 2001 hwqpsk.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1124 Sep 19 2001 hwtuner.o
drwxr-xr-x 2 500 500 176 Apr 2 12:59 inc/
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 778 Sep 19 2001 makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 83 Sep 19 2001 netscripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 12069 Sep 19 2001 pentadrv.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1069 Sep 19 2001 pentadrv.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 5812 Sep 19 2001 pentadrv.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 2278 Sep 19 2001 pentaif.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1588 Sep 19 2001 pentaif.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 2084 Sep 19 2001 pentaif.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1106 Sep 19 2001 pentaio.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 2016 Sep 19 2001 pentaio.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 15153 Sep 19 2001 pentasn.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1288 Sep 19 2001 pentasn.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 8488 Sep 19 2001 pentasn.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1250 Sep 19 2001 pentasnc.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 4944 Sep 19 2001 pentasnc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 43491 Sep 19 2001 pentaval.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 2008 Sep 19 2001 pridef.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 500 500 168 Sep 19 2001 share/

Despite there is some information for HDM8513:
http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/65322/HYNIX/HDM8513.html
http://www.ortodoxism.ro/datasheets/hynix/HDM8515P.pdf
the card probably uses some proprietary chips as indicated by fpga 
naming above.

You could ask pentamedia to release the missing driver modules as open 
source,
so it would be possible to port this to newer kernels.

> Would it be easy to either compile these for 2.6 kernel (autoconf doesn't 
> support 2.6) or force v4l to work with it?
>
> On the card is a Samsung tuner (TBMU30112JM?) consisting:
> 	Zarlink SL1925E
> 	Mitel SP5769
> 	Hynix HDM8513
> Also on the card:
> 	CONEXANT 25878-13
>
> # lspci -v -s 0:8
> 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video 
> Capture (rev 11)
>        Subsystem: Penta Media Co Ltd: Unknown device 0133
>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>        Memory at dfdfc000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> 0000:00:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture 
> (rev 11)
>        Subsystem: Penta Media Co Ltd: Unknown device 0133
>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>        Memory at dfdfd000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> Thanks.
>
>  

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