On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Markus Partheymueller <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there, > > I just wanted to ask whether there is a change in the situation of > tuners used in e.g. Terratec H5 / WinTV HVR-930c / MSI Digivox Trio > etc. As far as I can understand all the information available in > various mailing lists and boards, the real problem was (or is) the > DRX-K chip. Now there's a driver for Terratec H7 which includes some > drxk-* source code. Is this a different chip or is this the desired > source code for providing linux support for those devices? > > I would really appreciate linux support for this kind of tuners - of > course I've got one myself, but in general I hate the idea that there > are products not available to the linux domain. Especially when it > comes to TV - there are all kinds of custom VDR solutions featuring > Linux, as well as many lightweight laptops like the eeePC, which can't > access the huge variety of dvb tuner cards. In the case of the drx-k, the problem is no longer with the chipset vendor - they have provided source code under a license that will permit merging into an upstream kernel. The problem at this point is simply a lack of developers who are both qualified and willing to do the work. A secondary problem is that even if somebody gets a board working, a huge refactoring of the code is required in order for it to be accepted upstream. This for example is why the drx-j (the ATSC/QAM equivalent to the drxk-) isn't in the mainline kernel despite there having been an out-of-tree GPL driver available for almost a year. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
