[linux-dvb] Re: ARM crashes, what can I do to help?

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Hi,

Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Thilo Wunderlich writes:
>  > [ARM crash]
>  > > All we can do is to try to work around these bugs and hope that Ralph 
>  > > will fix them one day...
>  > 
>  > Is Ralph the only one now who is able to change things in the ARM 
>  > code?
> 
> No, Convergence can of course do their own firmware bugfixes.
> I also am not certain about the possible legal implications if I would
> offer new firmwares myself. 

I can't see any implications.


>  > Whats the status of the split of dvb as the Metzler brothers posted a 
>  > while ago? Are they going to release a branch themselves?
> 
> When we have the time.
> You have to understand that our current work is not directly related 
> to the "big" DVB card and we do not have much spare time.
> 
> Since Convergence now completely dropped support for cards which were
> only supported in the old branch (and which we need) we cannot use
> their current CVS anyway.

About what cards are you talking? About the Margi and EM8300? They are 
just not in CVS HEAD because nobody had the time yet to review the code 
and test it. If anybody needs them it's pretty simple to 'port' them. 
All changes between NEWSTRUCT and HEAD were only variable renamings in 
order to follow the kernel CodingStyle rules in pulic API files.

Whenever somebody has the time to do this work please contact me and 
send the patch.

Ralph: When you do it, you can commit it yourself, you still have your 
CVS account, right?


>  > Whats up with the fixed/improved CAM handling someone from 
>  > convergence wrote about months ago?
> 
> That only was a new implementation of the CI link layer inside the
> firmware. You would still have to write the upper CI layers 
> in a user application. Since this also is code which we wrote for
> Convergence you will have to ask them if they are going to release a
> firmware with it.

We already talked about this and would be willing to release this 
binary, but then somebody has to start an OpenSource CI link layer in 
user space. Otherwise it would not make much sense. I don't even know if 
this is possible with publicly available specs.

Holger



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