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

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> 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 
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
                          sorry, this means the remaining upper layers

> 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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