Hello all, I'm happy to announce that there have been some considerable improvements to the xc5000 driver, and I am looking for people with xc5000 based devices to test: == Noteworthy changes == * Power management is now properly supported - no more sucking up your laptop battery and burning your fingers on the tuner's f-connector when the device is idle (can be disabled with the "no_poweroff" modprobe option). * Faster tuning - average 10x improvement in time to lock. Average lock time now around 350ms, down from 3200ms. No more multi-second delays when trying to channel surf in tvtime. * Redistributable firmware - Xceive has graciously allowed us to redistribute the firmware and bundle it in the distros. No more need for users to manually extract the blob from the Hauppauge Windows driver. * Various fixes to bridges and dvb core found during power management testing. * Support for DVB-T tuning, thanks to David T.L. Wong <davidtlwong@xxxxxxxxx> To test the code, clone from the following hg repository: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~dheitmueller/xc5000-improvements-beta/ Unfortunately, current users are going to have to upgrade to the new firmware. However, this is a one time cost and I will work with the distros to get it bundled so that users won't have to do this in the future: http://www.devinheitmueller.com/xc5000/dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw http://www.devinheitmueller.com/xc5000/README.xc5000 Thanks go out to Xceive for providing access to the xc5000 specification, reference driver code, and firmware under the appropriate license. Thanks also go out to Michael Krufky for his considerable effort in helping test/debug different xc5000 hardware. I look forward to hearing back from testers with any problems they may encounter. Now is the time to bring these up before it gets merged into the mainline. Thanks, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
