-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:52:33 +0100 Von: "Christoph Pfister" <christophpfister@xxxxxxxxx> An: uwe.bugla@xxxxxx Betreff: Re: PATCH: 2 patches against current Mercurial tree > Hi, > > 2006/11/27, Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx>: > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:08:49 +0400 > > Von: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> > > An: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx> > > Betreff: Re: PATCH: 2 patches against current Mercurial tree > > > > > Hello Uwe, > > > > > > Uwe Bugla wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > Thanks for the excellent work done by Michael Krufky and Mauro > Chehab in > > > the last few days! Well Done, guys! > > > > I tested yesterday's mercurial tree against 2.6.19-rc6. > > > > As I stated already, the only card in my machine is a Pinnacle PCTV > Sat. > > > > And I consequently want to save RAM, i. e. avoid modules that are > not > > > necessary for this card to function well. > > > > > > > > > Have you ever taken a look at how much RAM is wasted by the modules in > > > (media/video) media/video/bt8xx ? > > Should I have done so? Fact is I waste 38 kB of Ram with two completely > senseless DST modules being compiled and loaded into RAM although I do not > need them at all! > > 1) with a 2.6.17+ kernel they aren't loaded (check modinfo dvb-bt8xx) > so you can simply remove / not install those modules > > 2) you should look at bttv and its deps because it even takes 175kb > [1] compared to cx878-core which takes 13 kb currently (will stay > below 20kb even in a final version i think) > > > > What you loose here is nothing in comparison to that. Most of the > > > hopelessness in DVB stuff comes because of hopeless dependencies in > V4L. > > > (just count how many hopeless V4L modules are loaded) > > > > > > If you keep quiet > > Will you please leave it up to me personally when I need to keep quiet > or not? > > and try to help, you will see better drivers, to have > > > a sneak preview you can look here which will avoid using the > > > media/video/foobar and all nonsense. > > > > > > http://thadathil.net:8000/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/cx878_3 > > > > > > > > > So try to cooperate, by testing that tree, eventhough work is going > on. > > > Might be incomplete for the time being. > > How do I have to imply that tree? Just copy the modules in the kernel > tree? > > Or how? > > Thanks! > > Copy the tree into v4l-dvb and adjust the makefiles ... Hi everybody, Lots of thanks, Christoph! If Manu's answering quality would be equivalent to yours that would be a big win for us all, wouldn't it? In fact I copied the tree into main vanilla. The experience after adjusting some things was utmost horrible because I suffered unknown symbols and other errors. So I just should have known that mercurial tree is the base to copy that stuff in. Would have saved me lots of hours and nerves..... I promised to help and I will do everything I can. Hope you can win some other people for at least testing by that mail. And I hope that this stuff will at least compile cleanly with mercurial /HG as base. Let us see what happens. This is a little "sneak preview" of what I got out trying to imply this stuff into vanilla 2.6.19-rc6-mm1: cx878_budget: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_pci_exit cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_dvb_init cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_dma_init cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_dma_stop cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_write_gpio cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_gpio_enable cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_pci_init cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_dma_exit cx878_budget: Unknown symbol cx878_dvb_exit PLUS: I hope that your new concept implies the fact that my card does not need dvb-pll.c. Michael Krufky definitely did do a great job! Uwe > > > > > > > > > > Manu > > > > Uwe > > Christoph > > > [1] notes about the module sizes (fully stripped, current v4l-dvb) > > dvb-bt8xx.ko (12812) + bt878.ko (8356) = 21168 bytes > > dst_ca.ko (11064) + dst.ko (21060) = 32124 bytes > > size of bttv (needed by bt878.ko) and its dependencies in media/video/* > > bttv: 108328 > video-buf: 15300 > v4l2-common: 17768 > tveeprom: 12752 > videodev: 20628 > > gives 174776 bytes ... -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
