On 12/31/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:34:56 -0200 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've just added an extraction tool to allow retrieving xc2028/3028 > firmwares > > from HVR-12x0 windows file. > > > > In order to use, you need to: > > 1) Download the windows driver with something like: > > wget > http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip > > 2) Extract the file hcw85bda.sys from the zip into the current dir: > > unzip -j HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip > Driver85/hcw85bda.sys > > 3) run the script: > > ./extract_xc3028.pl > > 4) copy the generated file: > > cp xc3028-v27.fw /lib/firmware > > > > I've also added the tool at linux/Documentation/video4linux. > > > > This firmware is known to work with most xc2028/xc3028 devices. Please > test. > > Sorry for a big message like this. Only after sending, I realized that the > extracting tool were so badly optimized. > > Anyway, I've optimized the script. It has now only 14Kb. It basically writes > the header for each firmware, with the firmware type, supported standard IDs > and its size. Then, it copies the entire firmwares from HVR driver. > Something > like this: > # > # Firmware 9, type: STD FW MTS (0x00000004), id: PAL/BG A2/B > (0000000200000007), size: 169 > # > > write_le32(4); # Type: MTS (0x00000004) > write_le64(8589934599); # Id: PAL/BG A2/B (0000000200000007) > write_le32(169); # Size: 169 > write_hunk_fix_endian(865592, 169); # Get the firmware from position > 865592 > > Since ID has 64 bits, I suspect that this perl script works fine only on 64 > bit kernels. Probably, we need to use Math::BigInt for this to work on 32 > bit > kernels. Hi, It looks like you're right about it only working on 64 bit systems. I tried running it on my 32 bit system and a lot of the firmware IDs incorrectly ended up as 0xffffffffffffffff. Since it's just a bitfield, Math::BigInt seems like overkill - surely it can just be done as two 32-bit writes? Aidan _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
