Replay	PlymouthVsGaea
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The 4000 software uses the terms 'plymouth' and 'gaea' both, and it hasn't been very clue what the differences are. The 4000 board itself is labelled "GAEA".

There's a hardware test routine that first magically decides whether it's running on plymouth or gaea, and then checks for:

plymouth:

• FPGA: merlot
• FPGA: cabernet
• i2c: SAA7114
• i2c: RTC
• i2c: Tuner
• i2c: Micronas
• PCI: ethernet 1050:0940 device 6("slot 1")
• PCI: TL850 544c:0350 device 7("slot 2")
• PCI: KFir2 141f:9000 device 8("slot 3")
• PCI: model 14f1:1056 device 9("slot 4")
• PCI: TI Cardbus controller 104c:ac51 device 10("hardwired")

gaea:

• FPGA: pinot (mine claims to have a bad pinot version #)
• i2c: SAA7114
• i2c: RTC
• i2c: Tuner
• i2c: Micronas
• PCI: ethernet 1050:0940 device 6("PCI Slot") (mine claims not to find this -- they may have changed cards?)
• PCI: TL850 544c:0350 device 9
• PCI: KFir2 141f:9000 device 8
• PCI: modem 14f1:1085 device 7

So it looks like the Plymouth architecture is a somewhat more general hardware platform, with more PCI slots -- maybe the TeraLogic? reference board, for development purposes, or maybe a generalized 4000 architecture for licensing?

According to the PCI ID database at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ (anyone know of other good ones?):

• 1050:0940 is Winbond W89C940
• 544c is TeraLogic?; no device codes registered
• 141f is VisionTech?; no device codes registered
• 14f1:1056 is Conextant HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (Worldwide)
• 14f1:1085 isn't listed. I got the impression from somewhere else (can't find now where) that it was a notebook-oriented 56k host-side softmodem
• 104c:ac51 is TI PCI1420

Are those plug-in encryption/authorization/security cards satellite receivers take CardBus?/PCMCIA cards?

-- ToddLarason - 24 May 2002