[linux-dvb] dvb-kernel budget tests

[Emard <emard@softhome.net>]

HI

I have completed my testing and evaluation of dvb-kernel
support for budget cards ond kernel 2.4.20 and found it
highly useable.

DVB reception is excellent. Even with two cards and two
mplayers in parallel everything is smooth and can work
for many hours even days without artefacts of other
interruptions. Default BIOS PCI latency=32 will do
(no more required bus-hungry latency=128).
 
Network reception is excellent, packet loss is so far
the lowest. There is neat support for adding and removal
of network devices with netdev commandline that can
be done in startup scripts or maintained via commandline.

Stability tests with die-hard vpeirq garbage feed,
fast reopening of frontend and network +- promisc
have passed smoothly.

Support for budget-patch is complete and final, patched
dvb-s is fully operational as any budget card.

Removal of the dvb-suite drivers is not well supported,
so for the production setups I recommend that you load
dvb modules on startup and keep them loaded. Removing
of the modules can lead to non-fatal oops if demux is in 
use or if 2 or more different ttpci-budget-* modules 
are loaded.

Also, dvb-kernel support in 2.5.60 is still not useable 
for production but just for development and some testing.

More development is needed, so feel free to review the
code, analyze oops with ksymoops and send patches.

Best regards, Emard


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