> -----Original Message----- > From: Manu Abraham [mailto:manu at linuxtv.org] > Sent: 16 June 2008 00:06 > To: Ben Backx > Cc: 'Manu Abraham'; 'Stefan Richter'; devel at driverdev.osuosl.org; > 'Mauro Carvalho Chehab'; 'Christian Dolzer'; 'Andreas Monitzer'; 'Fabio > De Lorenzo'; 'Robert Berger' > Subject: Re: on patch "DVB: add firesat driver" in staging.git > > Ben Backx wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Manu Abraham [mailto:manu at linuxtv.org] > >> Sent: 15 June 2008 23:24 > >> To: Stefan Richter > >> Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org; Mauro Carvalho Chehab; Ben Backx; > >> Christian Dolzer; Andreas Monitzer; Manu Abraham; Fabio De Lorenzo; > >> Robert Berger > >> Subject: Re: on patch "DVB: add firesat driver" in staging.git > >> > >> Stefan Richter wrote: > >>> Stefan Richter wrote: > >>>> This means that firesat needs to be ported to the new stack > >>>> eventually. The question remains if that should be done before > >>>> mainline submission or after. I tend to the latter, > >>> http://forum.digital-everywhere.com/viewforum.php?f=34 shows that > >> people > >>> are eager to test the driver. One user even posted an own small > >> fixup > >>> patch there. I.e. we should get it into mainline sooner rather > than > >>> later. A conversion to the new firewire stack would be easier > after > >>> mainline merge anyway, from the development POV. > >> Currently as it stands, the driver is usable, AFAICS. Albeit the > >> conversion to the new Firewire stack would be a nice thing to be > done. > >> > > > > There is a patch on the way for the DVB-S2 devices (not recognized > > correctly). I can submit this patch now, but I would rather add some > code so > > the DVB-S2 receivers can use the DVB-S functionality (DVB-S2 is only > > possible with the change to multiproto). I'll try to do this before > the end > > of the month. > > I've had some changes to add multi delivery system capability, but the > demodulator used, needs explicit definition of FEC and other > parameters. > > Currently, all existing DVB applications expect FEC to be AUTO, This > brings in the larger problem that i have been trying to tackle. > > If you prefer to send a patch, would wait for that instead, as i can > channelize the time for other stuff that i have been up with. > > That said, we would soon see multiproto in staging for some wider > tests. > > > Regards, > Manu The patch that fixes device recognition can be found at http://files.bbackx.com/index.php?dir=firedtv/&file=device-recognition.patch It only makes sure that a DVB-S2 device is really recognized as a S2, nothing else is added yet. It's using the string containing the model that is stored in the configuration rom, the older version was using some hardware-revision-dependent (is this English? ;-) ) part of the rom. Greetings, Ben
