Den 2009-01-06 13:13, Pauli Borodulin skrev: > Heya! > > I found out that there is some new activity on Manu Abraham's Mantis > driver, so I thought I could throw in some thoughts about it. > > I have been using Manu's Mantis driver (http://www.jusst.de/hg/mantis) > for over two years now. I have a VP-2033 card (DVB-C) and at least for > the last year the driver has worked without any hickups in my daily > (VDR) use. For a long time I have thought that the driver should already > be merged to the v4l-dvb tree. > > Igor M. Liplianin has created a new tree > (http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin) with the description > "DVB-S(S2) drivers for Linux". Mantis driver was merged into the tree in > October and since then some fixes has also been applied to the driver. > Some of these fixes already exist in Manu's tree, some don't. Both trees > are missing the remote control support for VP-2033 and VP-2040. > > Until merging of the driver into s2-liplianin, there was a single tree > for the Mantis driver development. Now that there are two trees, I fear > that the development could scatter if there's no clear idea how the > driver is going to get into v4l-dvb. Also, the driver is not only > DVB-S(S2), but it also contains support for VP-2033 (DVB-C), VP-2040 > (DVB-C) and VP-3030 (DVB-T). DVB-S(S2) stuff will probably greatly(?) > delay getting the support for DVB-C/T Mantis cards into v4l-dvb. > > For my personal use I have created a patch against the latest v4l-dvb > based on Manu's Mantis tree including the remote control support for > VP-2033 and VP-2040. But what I would really like to see is Mantis > driver merged into v4l-dvb and later into mainstream. > > Igor, what are your thoughts about the Mantis driver? How about the > other Mantis users, like Marko Ristola, Roland Scheidegger, and Kristian > Slavov? > > Regards, > Pauli Borodulin > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > Having a VP-3030 (DVB-T) I can tell you that this card isn't supported by the manu tree - but hopefully it will be someday /Max _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
