Re: device support on indy WS !?

[Andrea Venturi <a.venturi@cineca.it>]

Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Andrea Venturi wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>1. audio hal2: i saw in the cvs.sgi.com kernel the OSS hal2.* files; 
>>what about the guenther alsa0.9 port? is it finished? what about iec958 
>>spdif support?
>>
> 
> I can't say anything about ALSA 0.9 port. I decided for OSS driver,
> because I wanded to listen music and there was no driver. OSS is much
> better documented interface than ALSA.

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> 
> recording doesn't work and will not work until someone provide better
> documentation.
> 
> btw, what is iec958 spdig?
> 

it's a digital audio interface, for some info, see here:

   http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

in the indy there is a consumer mini-jack connector; you should be able 
to link a dolby surround digital amplifier or a dat or similar digital 
audio device..

see here:

   http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/i2sec3.html

BTW, on the mainboard, i can see the cs-8411, and there is the 8411.pdf 
inside the audio.zip doc package

> 
>>2. isdn: there is a siemens isac-s chip (BTW i didn't see the hscx 
>>twin): is it supported now? it should be not to difficult to leverage 
>>the ia32-isdn hisax (passive) isac driver _if_ the hpc3 delivers the 
>>irq? what do you think about it?
>>
> 
> there is currenty no support. any documentation available?
> 

apart from the hpc3.ps on:

   ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/doc/indy/

you should find the isac-s (peb2086) specs here:
http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_ov.jsp?oid=13633&cat_oid=-9183

but i don't know if it's enough.. i mean, if we should know something 
more on the way the isac-s chip is linked thru the pbus to the hpc3 chip.

bye

andrea venturi