> 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. Is s2-liplianin working for you (apart from the remote control support) ? > 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. The major difference between the two repositories is that s2-liplianin uses the S2API (API v5, which has already been released in kernel 2.6.28) and Manu's tree uses the Multiproto API (which will not be released). So s2-liplianin is much closer to v4l-dvb and could easily be merged in. I saw that Igor synchronized with v4l-dvb just 2 days ago. So s2-liplianin is the main mantis repository. Manu's tree hasn't been touched for 3 months. > 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. Why will it delay it? > 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. Great! Please post your remote control patch to the mailing list. It would be best to patch s2-liplianin if possible but Manu's tree is probably no different for this. > But what I would really like to see is Mantis > driver merged into v4l-dvb and later into mainstream. Me too, I would like to see s2-liplianin merged into v4l-dvb as soon as possible. > 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 Regards, Hans -- Release early, release often. Sensationsangebot verlängert: GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 16,37 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K1308T4569a _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
