Am Dienstag, den 01.01.2008, 20:33 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: > Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > 2008/1/1, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > >>> Hi Manu > >>> > >> There is a OSS driver upcoming, supported by the chip manufacturer themselves > >> (AFA Technologies.) I have been a bit involved in that process. > > > > Yep - looks nice - and do you have any idea about the release date? > > I don't have a date, but the chip manufacturer as well as everybody involved is under > pressure, due to the large usage of the chip by different peripheral manufacturers. > It has to come out soon, looking at the list of supported device configurations by now, > nothing less than 33 configurations documented list as i have now, just PC based > configurations alone, CE equipments excluded. > > >> The current state is that there are some tests going on in the AFA labs on the driver > >> for the chip (currently, 2nd round) due to all the Hardware hacks on the chip to handle > > > > Maybe I could help with testing and reporting bugs ? > > As I can see it would be probably useless to try hacking any code for > > this device myself. > > The current state of testing is that, one needs to understand the chip internals and > the testing happens in the Labs alone (lot of undocumented things in there, > documentation being really crap), with some basic tests we have going on. As soon > as it get's past this stage, there is something for users to test. > > I have redone the driver a few times by now, trying to handle the different aspects. > There have been some discussions on this ML also, on the same a while back. > > Regards, > Manu > Manu, where do you have your mission from? As far as I can see, _excactly Nobody_ asked you to do it. If you have a GO for this by Linus and Andrew, and that I seriuously doubt, I stay away for ever ... Cheers, Hermann _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
