Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: RFC Maestro-3i

# Re: RFC Maestro-3i

Martin Dalecki (m.dalecki@stock-world.de)
Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:54:27 +0200

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Martin Dalecki wrote:
> >
> > Just recently I got a nice HP-OmniBook notebook into my hand,
> > and guess what? There is tons of new hardware components on.
> > In esp the sound/modem card is a Maestro-3i chipset.
> > I don't have any illusions about the modem part of it - very unikely
> > it will ever whor [work?].
>
> I think when people initially make predictions about winmodem-type
> modems not working, they didn't think much about the momentum of cheap
> PC hardware and open source.. With so many winmodems out there today,
> Linux programmers would inevitably get irked enough to reverse engineer
> the hardware support.

As far as I can see there isn't much for reverse engine for in
the ESS Maestro-3i part. I have the specs (anybody can get them
on ftp://esstech.com.tw. However this part is *really really cheap*
Blame on HP for including such a piece of CRAP into such
an expensive notebook! And I doubt the timeframe needed to reverse
engineer this thing will be shorter then the time frame during which
it will get obsoleted...

> In just a year or two, we have gone from "winmodem support is
> impossible!" to hardware support for Lucent (and easily added for AC97
> modem codecs), and a V.32 protocol stack in the works. Watch
> http://www.linmodems.org/ periodically.

OK I was already there Lucent's modems are *very* different beasts.
BTW. The part responsible for the modem codec is MC97.

> > However I got the /dev/mixer support for it
> > running by just adapting the Maestro 1,2,2e drivers.
> >
> > I have the tech doc's about the whole thing.
> >
> > Now I would like to ask whatever there is already someone working
> > on a sound-driver for this thingee or not ?
>
> Talk to Zach Brown, he's the maintainer of the current driver and it
> would probably be good to coordinate development with him, or at least
> pick his brain a bit. :)

He should be lurinkg...

> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Garzik | Liberty is always dangerous, but
> Building 1024 | it is the safest thing we have.
> MandrakeSoft, Inc. | -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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