On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Andrew Barbaccia > Sorry, maybe I phrased my request as a solution which is not what I > intended. I was unaware of your agreements with NXP. I see you added how > much money has been donated to your post. That's more than enough of a > status indicator for me. > Possibly could you roughly estimate how much more work is required and > present it in the same manner? > I want to you know that I do support this project and have just contributed > - both as a thank you for your prior work and willingness to help the > community in addition to the HVR-2250 support. Andrew, I cannot speak to the saa7164, but to give you an order of magnitude, I spent over a month working on the saa7136 support, working every night and weekend for 4-6 hours. The analog support I did for the au0828/au8522 took about 100 hours. So, while not necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison, these drivers tend to take tens or sometimes hundreds of hours of development. They are definitely a non-trivial amount of work to do. Bear in mind that the saa7164 is a much more complicated chip than the saa7136. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
