Re: Hercules Game Theater - cs4630

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:06:39 +0200,
Benny Sjostrand wrote:
> 
>   My first thought was that it would be a easy match to make the
> Hercules Game Theater XP sound card work on Linux. My goal is to make
> the SPDIF IN-OUT interface work, and the multichannel PCM improving the
> current alsa cs46xx driver, and then go on with other advanced codec
> stuffs (hopefully finish before i die ...)
> Now a couple of days browsing the alsa source code and reading a lot
> of borring HW datasheet of must all Cirrus CS4xxx chips it just dont
> feel possible to find any easy solution.
> In the Cirrus collection of manuals and datasheet i have found a lot
> HW specifications and reference design documents for the CS4630 chip,
> and the codecs CS4694, CS4697 and so on. But what about the programmers
> guide, does it not exist any open document like "CS4630 Programmers
> Manual", or something similar, where it explain how to program the DSP
> ?? or is that not public ???

no.

> Then i've sent mail to Cirrus and Hercules, of course without any
> response (yet) ....
 
i've been asking to cirrus logic many times, but no responce, too.
apparently cirruslogic has no interest in this chip at all, since
they stopped producing this chip.


Takashi


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