Hi Per, Am Donnerstag, den 04.03.2010, 14:03 +0200 schrieb Per Lundberg: > Hi Hermann, > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:05 AM, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Has anyone done any attempt at contacting TBS to see if they can release their > >> changes under the GPLv2? Ideally, they would provide a patch themselves, but it > >> should be fairly simple to diff the linux/ trees from their provided > >> linux-s2api-tbs6980.tar.bz2 file with the stock Linux 2.6.32 code... in fact, it > >> could be that their patch is so trivial that we could just include it in the > >> stock Linux kernel without asking them for license clarifications... but > >> obviously, if we can get a green sign from them, it would be even better. > > > > It is always the other way round. > > > > In the end they need a green sign from us. > > Well... I guess we are both right. :-) They need to assert ownership > and license the code under the GPL, and we need to ensure that the > quality of the code is high enough (driver is working and does not > interfer with other parts of the code base...). no, they must provide GPLed code accepted by NXP or someone else will do it. We can't assure quality of code we can't see. > > BTW, the TBS dual seems to be fine on m$, but there are some mysterious > > lockups without any trace, if used in conjunction with some prior > > S2/HDTV cards. I can't tell yet, if that it is evenly distributed over > > amd/ati and nvidia stuff or whatever on win7 ... , but people do spend > > lifetime in vain on it. > > This is pretty interesting, do you have any references? (forum links > or similar) No, a friend recently bought that card in addition to a Terratec S2 PCI for his new windows 7 he already had. Likely totally unrelated to linux, but on his stuff it turned out he can't use both cards at once, single both are fine. > In my particular case, I was thinking about using it as the "only" S2 > card in the machine, later possibly adding a DVB-C card if/when we get > cable... so, it might not be a problem for me, but it still doesn't > feel really good. I guess the card is pretty new, so maybe (hopefully) > it will get fixed by a new firmware release. > > Do we have any readers of this list who own the card and use it in > Linux (with the drivers from TBS)? Could you please share your > experiences: is the picture quality good? Sound? Does the tuner work > well? (e.g. can you receive all channels you normally receive...) Sorry, can't help much yet and can't add anything new. For now I advised better not to try with binary blobs on linux, he was already burned enough on win7. He might try later and we will have it under GPL sooner or later. Cheers, Hermann -- 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
