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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Well,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Unlike most VIA’s where the TV-out is built in to the
northbridge, Intel uses a separate chip for the TV-out, in this case it is a </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Conexant
CX25873-13 High Performance Video Encoder. The chip is onboard, just separate from
the northbridge. And the tricky part is that the Conexant CX25873 needs to be
initialized after the graphics (timing, clocking, etc), hence the need for a
custom graphics init. Does that make sense??</span></font><font size=2
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,<br>
Joseph Smith<br>
Set-Top-Linux<br>
<a href="http://www.settoplinux.org">www.settoplinux.org</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Corey Osgood
[mailto:corey.osgood@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 19, 2008
11:20 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> joe@settoplinux.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Peter Stuge; Coreboot<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [coreboot] TV-Out
Plan - need suggestions</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Erm, is the tv-out part
of the onboard video, or is it a separate chip? I thought it was a separate
chip, so it wouldn't go in with the i830 stuff (in case someone else has tv out
with another board and a different chip). But if it's onboard, just ignore me.<br>
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-Corey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Joe <<a
href="mailto:joe@settoplinux.org">joe@settoplinux.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>That's what I was thinking Peter, I'll have to look into this further.
Just<br>
think, this will be the first coreboot board with TV-out that will not<br>
depend on any outside drivers :-)<br>
<br>
Although there are Linux drivers that could be used to change the settings<br>
once in Linux (overscan, etc).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Thanks,<br>
Joseph Smith<br>
Set-Top-Linux<br>
<a href="http://www.settoplinux.org" target="_blank">www.settoplinux.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org">coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org">coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> On Behalf Of Peter Stuge<br>
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:42 PM<br>
> To: Coreboot<br>
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] TV-Out Plan - need suggestions<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:50:15PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:<br>
> > > > 2. Then setup a init (that would program the registers, and
fire<br>
> > > > it up for the Tv encoder coreboot-v2/src/drivers/tv-out
which<br>
> > > > could also be called from the nothbridge vga.c.<br>
> ><br>
> > Again, do this inside mainboard.c, so any other systems that might<br>
> > use i830 don't get tv init interfering with anything else.<br>
><br>
> Please make the TV stuff generic code for the chipset that is enabled<br>
> by an option in Config.lb.<br>
><br>
><br>
> //Peter<br>
><br>
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