On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Andy Burns wrote: > I only just realised that I'm (possibly) supposed to grab a firmware > blob for the TDA10046 decoder, I see the script in Documentation/dvb to > do the dirty work. > > dmesg | grep -i tda > > DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)... > DVB: registering frontend 1 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)... > tda1004x: found firmware revision 26 -- ok > > But I definitely don't have *.fw anywhere on the machine, my question is > how does my card (Compro Videomate DVB-T200) manage to work without the > firmware? > > Does this card have on board eeprom where some others don't? Looks like it. Although I don't know why the manufacturer would want to spend money on an eeprom if they can build the card without one. > Does the > firmware only add certain extra functionality? Is there a certain level > of firmware onboard, and the driver only needs to upload a version from > file if the onboard version is too low? > > Will the firmware extracted from tt_budget_217g.zip do me any good (i.e. > newer) or should I leave it alone? The driver won't load it. But it would be easy to change that if you want to experiment with differnt firmwares. Johannes
