[ale] WinTV Go cards

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>From owner-ale at ale.org  Tue Mar 13 17:58:14 2001
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:57:51 -0500
>From: "David S. Jackson" <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net>
>To: Fletch <fletch at phydeaux.org>
>Cc: ale at ale.org, kplug-list at kernel-panic.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] WinTV Go cards
>
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:50:42PM -0500 Fletch <fletch at phydeaux.org> wrote:
[...]
>That's good news.  Did you have to roll a 2.3.x kernel?  Oh, and
>your chipset, was it a BT8x8 variety?
>
>The funny thing about this card is that the WinTV modules says
>NTSC 38101 RevB410, copyright 1998, but the video chip doesn't
>say BT like I thought it would.  It says
>
>CONEXANT
>Fusion 878A
>25878-13
>CC0219.3
>0010 Korea
>
>Is conexant a Korean ripoff of the Brooktree chipset or something?

IIRC/IIUC Brooktree was acquired by Rockwell & subsequently
sold (?) to Conexant.  Conexant is the "new" name for the
bt8x8 chips.  http://www.conexant.com

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>David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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