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

[Honza Petrous <hop@unibase.cz>]

On St, 2002-10-16 at 10:07, 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 
> user space. Otherwise it would not make much sense. I don't even know if 
> this is possible with publicly available specs.
> 

Yes, please, please, if somebody have access to CI link layer spec then 
we can at least try to do it.

<joke>
The best solution would be to get a CSA (Common Scrambling Algoritm) 
spec, then we don't need any CAM or softCAM at all ;)
</joke>

/Honza



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