Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Steve Toth wrote: > >>I'm almost finish the drivers for a new DVB-S design, which will be >>released real soon, also based on the cx2388x pci bridge. This is >>currently based on the V4l patches and a seperate frontend demod driver, >>but could work equaly as well using the standalone pci driver. >> >>My long term preference is to have _ALL_ of the required software for >>the existing Nova-T 90002 and the new DVB-S design, under the linux DVB >>project, not v4l. This will make life for non-kernel guru's a lot easier >>when configuring the hardware. >> >>Does anyone have a good reason why the standalone PCI bridge driver >>should not be submitted for inclusion into the linux dvb tv project, to >>simplify DVB product support? > > > Having two drivers for the same hardware is bad. I don't like it. > Moreover, if I would post a patch to add a second cx2388x driver > to lkml I would expect to get flamed to death. So I won't do it. > I won't keep you back if you want to try your luck on lkml yourself. > If they approve of it I won't stand in your way. > > The current situation with the maintainerless v4l isn't good, > but instead of whining about it you should do what you can > to ensure that 2.6.12 will contain the necessary patches > to support your cards. AFAIK all of Gerd's stuff is in 2.6.12-rc3, > so if your cards aren't working you should send your patches > to Andrew Morton asap. (If there are DVB patches in CVS that > you need then please tell me.) > > > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > I have the Hauppaugue WinFast 2000 XP Nova-T card with the Thomson tuner. bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: snapshot date 2005-04-04 bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx2388x: snapshot date 2005-04-04 cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected] cx88[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=90002, tuner=76 cx88[0]: registered IR remote control ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 18 cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:08.2, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe5000000 cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). DVB: registering frontend 0 (Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T)... I tried 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 which seemed to have everything needed for this card, bit I get a segfault on insertion of the cx8802 module. I don't know if this is an indication of some hardware problem or if it's due to some differences between Gerd's snapshots and what Andrew has in his -mm tree, but I have it all working using 2.6.11.7 + Gerd's cvs-snapshot 20050403. It also worked with some snapshots from 2.6.10 upwards. It would be nice to have it all under Andrew's tree for moving into Linus'. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
